DESIGN―A―LOGO CONTEST

We need a logo—a graphic (绘画的) image—that will be the perfect symbol of our great new Wellsville Skate Park. We would like those of you who are counting the days until the grand opening to design an appropriate logo that can be used on stationery, business cards, fliers, brochures, posters and T-shirts. An appropriate, well-designed logo will provide an opportunity for young artists to receive recognition as well as great prizes. If you are interested, here are the things you need to know:

Logo Requirements

● Design must be original .

● Design can include no more than two colors.

● The words “Wellsville Skate Park” must appear in the logo.

● Logo should be submitted (提交) on 8×11 papers in every shape. Do not fold.

Submission Details

● Name and address of the designer must appear on the back of the logo design.

● Contestants (竞赛者) need to include a one-page written explanation describing the key features of the design.

Deadline

● Mail entries(参赛作品) will be accepted between April 10 and May 15. Entries must be postmarked no later than May 15.

● Winning designs will be posted on our website at www. wellsville. skatep. com on May 20.

Prizes

● First Prize: A digital camera

● Second Prize: One-year pass to Wellsville Skate Park

● Honorable Mention: A T-shirt with the prize-winning logo.

MAIL ENTRY FORMS AND DESIGNS TO:

Wellsville Skate Park Logo Contest

Riverside Recreation Center

1295 New Rockford Hwy, Riverside, VA23226

1.At the beginning, the advertisement tries to encourage readers to enter the contest by ___________.

A. offering prizes B. showing sample logos

C. explaining the rules D. relating graphic details

2.According to Logo requirements, the submitted design must ________________________.

A. include the full park name

B. be in a round shape

C. use at least four colors

D. be based on simple ideas

3.How will winners be announced?

A. By mail. B. By telephone.

C. On the website. D. On the radio.

4.Which website would be most helpful for contestants?

A. Website Design and Logo Design Company.

B. Designing Logos: A Guide.

C. Before and After: A Logo Design History.

D. Business Logos Designed Fast.

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。

Selfie

Social media and the mobile web have given rise to a strange phenomenon called the selfie(自拍). It refers to a picture of yourself, usually shared on any social networking website.

1. Some selfies are extreme close-ups(特写镜头), and others show part of an arm held straight outward. A few of them even feature the subject standing in front of a bathroom mirror.

Everyone takes selfies, but the younger crowd seems to be especially involved in the trend. Young people are relatively heavier digital users. They are interested in staying connected to their friends. 2.

There are also kinds of psychological factors driving people to take a selfie and upload it to a social networking site. 3. A quick and easy way to attract other's attention is to get "likes" and comments from friends. Secondly, it's human nature to show off your own great achievements. When you feel good about yourself or look good, it's far too easy to take out your phone and document it all through one or several selfies. 4. That's right. Sometimes people are bored at work, bored at school, bored at home and even bored on the toilet. Last but not least, social media is about being social! If that means uploading as many selfies as possible, then so be it. It's fun, and it's a cool way to sort of document your own life.

Finally, there are things to be mindful of when you're posting. It's easy to think you're sharing a photo with a few people. 5. So don't post anything online, selfie especially.

A. There are lots of selfie styles.

B. The rise of selfies has become universal.

C. Social media, to some extent, is the driving force of their selfie activity.

D. The desire to take, post and get "likes" on selfies goes back to a biological behavior.

E. But the whole world of social media is public and every individual can get access to it.

F. There are also people who will take selfies because they have nothing else better to do.

G. The leading factor is that people want to get attention from as many people as possible.

短文改错

假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一下作文。 文中共有10处语言错误， 每句中最多两处。错误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：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉

修改：在错的词下划一横线，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限一词；

2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Ms. J. K. Rowling,

It is great pleasure to write to you. I like reading all of your Harry Potter book. A few days before, I listened to a radio programme about you. Now I know that you teach English at home and in others countries before you started writing books. I also know that you could only write the first book while your baby daughter was asleep, so you worked on them for five years. That was a very much difficult job. Your son David and your daughter Jessica must be proud for you. I hope I can become as successfully as you when I grow up. Thank you for spending time read my letter.

Yours sincerely,

Michele

书面表达

中国人出国旅游的不文明行为越来越受到广泛关注。请以表格中所列举的事实为依据，写一则英语短文，谈谈自己的看法。

注意：

1. 文章必须包括表格中的提示内容，可以增加细节使行文连贯；

2. 词数100左右；

3. 开头已经给出，不计入总词数；

4. 参考词汇：乱丢 (垃圾) litter；吐痰 spit；形象 image；声誉 reputation

As more and more Chinese go traveling abroad, reports about their bad manners flood in.

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Loneliness is like a disease, and what’s worse, it’s contagious. It can spread from one person to another, according to the recent research that stresses the power of one person’s emotions to affect even people they don’t know.

The new analysis, involving 4,793 people who were interviewed every two years between 2005 and 2015, showed that a friend of a lonely person was 52% more likely to develop feelings of loneliness by the time of the next interview. A friend of that person was 25% more likely, and a friend of a friend of a friend was 15% more likely.

''Loneliness is not just the property of an individual. It can be transmitted across people—even people you don’t have direct contact with,” said John T. Cacioppo, a psychologist of University of Chicago who led the study published in the December issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Loneliness has been linked to medical problems, including depression, sleep problems and generally poorer physical health. Identifying some of the causes could help reduce the emotion and improve health, experts said.

Although the study did not examine how loneliness spreads, Cacioppo said another research has provided clues. “Let’s say for whatever reason you get lonely. You then interact with other people in a more negative fashion. That puts them in a negative mood and makes them more likely to interact with other people in a negative fashion and they minimize their social ties and become lonely,” Cacioppo said.

According to Cacioppo, loneliness spread more easily among women than men, perhaps because women were more likely to express emotions.

Lonely people become less and less trusting others. This makes it more and more difficult for them to make friends—and more likely that society will reject them. Therefore, it is important to recognize and deal with loneliness. Cacioppo emphasizes people who have been pushed to the edges of society should receive help to repair their social networks.

1.It can be concluded from the first .paragraph that .

A. loneliness spreads in social networks

A. emotions are only transmitted between friends

B. more and more people are suffering from loneliness

C. loneliness is actually a kind of disease

2.According to Cacioppo, lonely people .

A. rely heavily on others

B. are more likely to trust others

C. are less likely to be rejected by friends

D. will probably be deserted by society

3.The word “ minimize” in Paragragh 5 is closest in meaning to .

A. increase B. reduce C. create D. keep

4.What should lonely people do to get rid of loneliness? '

A. Refuse the help given by others.

B. Admit and try to solve it.

C. Interact with others more negatively.

D. Express emotions more often.

完形填空

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给四个选项（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。

A kind-hearted homeowner kept a baby elephant in her back yard for months during the Second World War. It has been reported that the reason was that zookeepers ________ the animal would be killed in a bombing.

Sheila lived at Belfast Zoo ________ she was moved to her unusual home in 1941 as the city ________ a lightning war called the Belfast Blitz. She was one of the ________ ones at the zoo, in the north of the city. The Ministry of Public Safety ________ 23 zoo animals to be killed in case they got free and ________ people, including a tiger, a black bear, a lynx, a hyena, two polar bears and six wolves. But instead of meeting the same________ , Sheila was walked down the road by ________ to a red-brick house on the Whitewell Road where a woman took her ________ and let her live in the back yard for several months until the________ was over.

Now, as part of the zoo’s 75th anniversary, the zoo managers are trying to ________ the woman who gave the elephant its wartime protection, known ________ as “the elephant angel”. All they have are a couple of black and white ________ of two women sitting on a garden seat________ , Sheila drinking out of a tin bucket beside the back door of the________ .

Zoo manager Mark Challis said, “The ________ provided by our mystery lady is ________ to zoo history and we would like to make contact with her family and ________ document this gap in our past.” ________ , Sheila went on to________ the war, living another 25 years until her death at the zoo in 1966.

1.A. wanted B. imagined C. feared D. protected

2.A. until B. after C. since D. once

3.A. declared B. ignored C. involved D. experienced

4.A. frightening B. lucky C. extinct D. popular

5.A. ordered B. predicted C. warned D. offered

6.A. attracted B. pleased C. attacked D. covered

7.A. hope B. disorder C. Pain D. fate

8.A. soldiers B. zookeepers C. experts D. advisers

9.A. out B. in C. away D. off

10.A. bombing B. searching C. controlling D. struggling

11.A. admit B. realize C. see D. find

12.A. again B. only C. rarely D. yet

13.A. photos B. statues C. scenes D. messages

14.A. allowing B. keeping C. watching D. making

15.A. zoo B. park C. dormitory D. house

16.A. care B. food C. drink D. yard

17.A. useless B. limited C. unique D. valueless

18.A. properly B. secretly C. slowly D. temporarily

19.A. Sadly B. Happily C. Obviously D. Gradually

20.A. fight B. succeed C. fail D. Survive

阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确 形式.

Many teachers believe that hands-on experiences is the 1. (good) way to learn. A group of students in the United States are putting that belief to the test. They 2. _ (success) designed and built a robot for discovering unexploded mines3. the bottom of the sea. Students made the robot 4. (answer) a challenge from the U.S. Department of Defense.

The students recently tested the underwater vehicle 5. (call) Perseus II in a 95-meter-long tank of water at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

The robot costs about $15,000 to build. The students use a video game controller to direct its 6. (move) in the tank. What’s more, devices know as Japters 7. (able) the robot to go up, down and toward its target in the water. Video cameras on the robot send images back to a computer through a 13-meter-long cable. Perseus II also has 8.__set of lasers(激光), which are used to measure the size of an object.

The robot is the creation of five undergraduate students. For over six months, they worked up 9. 20 hours a week to design and build Perseus II.

DeLome supervised the project from the 10. (begin) to the end. He says the specialized requirements of robot were demanding.

The website is very popular. And it’s amazing that __________designer of it is just ________nine-year-old child.

A. the; the B. a; the C. the; a D. a; a

He ________ for the first time in his life that night.

A. gets drunk B. got drunk

C. was drinking D. is drunk

I was ________ excited at that moment ________ I didn’t know what to say.

A. such. . . that B. too. . . that

C. rather. . . that D. so. . . that