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。

It was my sister Sandra’s first Christmas without her husband. Last Thursday, she was in the store ___________ for an ideal card for her two sons and daughter. Time passed by quickly as she___________ the many choices. She wanted a card that sent something ___________to each of them, as she knew they would have a(n) ___________ place in their heart this holiday season.

Finally, she found the one that expressed the ___________ feeling. ___________ , a sharp pain pierced (穿透) her heart when she realized that the card was ___________ “mom and dad”. She stood, holding it close for a long time, unable to move from the spot. ___________ began to run over her cheeks.

“Is there something I can do for you?” a ___________ voice asked. She ___________to face a stranger, a woman. “Uh..oh...OH!” Sandra ___________ , “I can’t give this card to my children because…because my husband died and this is the___________ card.”

The stranger’s face softened with ___________ and love. She reached out and ___________ my sister into her arms, giving her unspoken___________ to cry in the protection of her embrace (拥抱). She ___________ held my sister until her ___________ returned.

During her telling of this event I was feeling ___________ that I hadn’t been there. My sister needed me and a stranger had to do my ___________ . “You know,” she went on, “a friend suggested that it was like meeting with an Angel.” My guilt ___________ in an instant. My sister required an Angel, and I think that is exactly what she got.

1.A. paying B. caring C. calling D. looking

2.A. left B. offered C. read D. discovered

3.A. attractive B. special C. traditional D. wealthy

4.A. unknown B. empty C. safe D. different

5.A. sad B. strange C. amazing D. perfect

6.A. However B. Therefore C. Anyhow D. Otherwise

7.A. for B. to C. from D. by

8.A. Tears B. Sweats C. Lights D. Smiles

9.A. firm B. proud C. cold D. soft

10.A. walked B. turned C. decided D. woke

11.A. responded B. demanded C. asked D. explained

12.A. delicate B. old C. wrong D. decorative

13.A. devotion B. respect C. sympathy D. responsibility

14.A. pulled B. caught C. sent D. threw

15.A. thought B. permission C. sorrow D. suggestion

16.A. quietly B. tightly C. eagerly D. seriously

17.A. confidence B. courage C. happiness D. calmness

18.A. shocked B. angry C. shy D. hopeless

19.A. task B. housework C. favor D. job

20.A. struck B. returned C. disappeared D. sank

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。

We think that life in Chinese high school is an adventure in which we have to survive mountains of homework and all kinds of exams. Yet would it be 1. (surprise) if I tell you that high school life in the US is almost as stressful and demanding 2. it is in China?

In US high school, everything must 3. (record) into your studying document, including your grades on quizzes, tests and final examinations. Failing 4. (turn) in your homework on time will directly affect your grade for a certain course. Perhaps completely different from 5. we used to think of the US high school students, they pay great attention to 6. (they) academic performance in order that they can get into a distinguished university.

Like university students, US high school students have the 7. (free) to choose the courses that most interest them. Even a ninth-grader can sit 8. the same classroom as 12th-graders. But this also 9. (mean) he or she has to work very hard, because the teacher will not treat him or her 10. (different).

短文改错

请改正下面短文中的错误。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每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：把多余的词用斜线(＼)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；

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last Saturday, my parents and I paid visit to my grandparents by train. There was a

large number of people in the crowded train, but everyone help those who had lots of

baggage and behaved politely. Along the way, we enjoyed beautifully views. At first, we saw

one hill after another. Then what came into our eye were fields with green crops. In a six-hour

trip, we arrived at my grandparents’ house. Exhausted though I felt, but I was happy to see my

grandparents, which I hadn’t seen for a long time. It’s really an excited trip because it was the

first time I had taken so a long-distance train.

假定你是李华，暑假参加了澳大利亚游学活动，回国后给host family写一封信表示感谢，要点如下：

1. 感谢他们一家的照顾;

2．分享游学体会;

3．询问你寄的礼物（汉语词典）是否收到;

4. 邀请他们一家来中国游览。

注意：1．词数100左右。

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3．开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear Helen，

Looking forward to your reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项。

Arthur Miller(1915-2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller’s father had moved to the USA from Austria-Hungary, drawn like so many others by the “ Great American Dream”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression (大萧条时期) of the early 1930s.

Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators (标志) of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with his system, Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment (情绪): if he can’t do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.

When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It was the first play to win all the three of these major awards.

Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.

1.Why did Arthur Miller’s father move to the USA?

A. He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.

B. He was attracted by the “Great American Dream”.

C. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.

D. His family business failed.

2.The play Death of a Salesman _____.

A. exposes the cruelty of the American business world

B. discusses the ways to get promoted in a country

C. talks about the business career of Arthur Miller

D. focuses on the skills in doing business

3.What can we learn about Willy Loman?

A. He treats his employer badly.

B. He runs the Wagner Company.

C. He is a victim of the American system.

D. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.

4.After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman _____.

A. achieved huge success

B. won the first Tony Award

C. was warmly welcomed by salesmen

D. was severely attacked by dramatists

5. What is the text mainly about?

A. Arthur Miller and his family.

B. The awards Arthur Miller won.

C. Arthur Miller and his best-known play.

D. The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.

阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项。

The State Council submitted (提交) a bill which aims to allow couples to have two children if either parent is an only child. It focuses on adjusting and improving the family planning policy.

The State Council argues adjustment to the policy in the face of a steadily declining birth rate. The birth rate has remained relatively low and shows a tendency to fall further. The rate has dropped to between 1.5 and 1.6 since the 1990s, which means each Chinese woman of child-bearing age gives birth to 1.5 to 1.6 children on average. The working population began to drop in 2012 by 3.45 million every year, and it is likely to fall by 8 million each year after 2023.

The population aged 60 and above will reach 400 million and account for one-fourth of the total population in the early 2030s, up from one-seventh now.

“If the current family planning policy continues, the birth rate will continue to fall and lead to a sharp drop of the total population after reaching a peak,” said Li Bin, minister in charge of the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

“It is the right time to make changes: The low birth rate is stable, the working population is still large and the burden of supporting the elderly remains relatively light,” he added.

An increase in birth is expected if the policy changes but will not seriously affect the food supply, public education, health care or employment.

China’s food safety and public service plans are designed to meet the needs of 1.43 billion population in 2020 and 1.5 billion in 2033. Even with the policy change, the total population will reach no more than 1.38 billion in 2015, Li said.

1. Why did the State Council submit the bill?

A. To increase the population of Han nationality.

B. To balance the nature and society.

C. To develop the economy of China.

D. To solve the social population issue.

2.The new policy may have an effect on the following expect _____.

A. public education B. the food supply

C. the divorce rate D. employment

3.What can we learn about the population in China from the passage?

A. After the year of 2023, the population will become less and less.

B. There’s no need to carry out the family planning policy.

C. At the beginning of 2030s the aging problem will be worse than now.

D. In the year 2023, the population may be the least.

阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项。

The ocean bottom, a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of the earth, is even today largely unexplored. Until about a century ago, the deep ocean floor was completely inaccessible and hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep. Totally without light and in the case of intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the earth’s surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a strange environment to humans, in some way as frightening and remote as the outer space.

Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks for over a century, the first detailed global study of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1969, with the beginning of the National Science Foundation’s Deep Sea Drilling Project(DSDP). Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDP’s drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the ocean’s surface and drill very deep waters, taking samples of rocks from the ocean floor.

The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983. During this time, it sailed 600,000 kilometers and took almost 20,000 samples of rocks around the world. Those samples have allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundreds of millions of years ago and to make out what it will probably look like millions of years in the future. Today, largely on the strength of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challenger’s voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree on the theories of plate tectonics (构造学) and continental drift that explain many of the geological processes.

The sample of rocks drilled by the Glomar Challenger have also provided a climatic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years. The information of past climatic change can be used to predict the future climate.

1.What does the underlined word “inaccessible” in paragraph1 mean?

A. unrecognizable B. unreachable

C. unusable D. unreasonable

2.Which of the following is TRUE about the Glomar Challenger?

A. It is a military submarine.

B. It is used to develop tourism.

C. It has gone on over 100 voyages.

D. It made its first DSDP voyage in 1969.

3.The Deep Sea Drilling Project was significant because it was _____.

A. the first detailed exploration of the ocean bottom

B. conducted by geologists from all over the world

C. supported entirely by the gas and oil industry

D. an attempt to find new sources of oil and gas

阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项。

What do you do when you need to look something up? Go to the library? Open an encyclopedia(百科全书)? Click onto the Internet? These days, most people go straight to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. But how reliable is it?

There’s no denying the popularity and usefulness of Wikipedia. It attracts as many as 78 million visitors every month, and the site is available in more than 270 different languages. It’s one of the most comprehensive resources available, which includes almost all details, facts and information that may be concerned. It’s got much more information than an ordinary encyclopedia. The site is updated on a daily basis by thousands of people around the world. Anyone with an Internet connection can log on and edit the contents or add a new page. And you don’t need any formal training.

Of course, there are some controls. Wikipedia has a team of more than 1,500 administrators who check for false information. And main targets for harmful comments(such as politicians) are off-limits to public editing. But with more than 16 million articles to keep an eye on, it isn’t easy. So, while Wikipedia benefits from being constantly updated with information from all over the world, it’s also open to “vandals”（恣意破坏公共财物者）.

Some of the damage is easy to notice. One person drew devil horns and a moustache on Microsoft chairman Bill Gate’s photo, while another edited Greek philosopher Plato’s biography to say he was a “Hawaiian weather man who is widely believed to have been a student of ‘Barney the purple Dinosaur’.

But other things are harder to spot. The most common form of vandalism (恣意破坏公共财物罪)involves adding tiny items of false information into the biography of a famous person. Unbelievably, some of this misinformation has appeared in newspapers, with The Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Independent all having fallen victim to the dirty tricks. For example, in an article about British comedian Sir Norman Wisdom, one newspaper claimed that he co-wrote Dame Vera Lynn’s wartime hit There’ll be bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover. He did no such thing. And in other article, it was reported that TV Theme tune composer Ronnie Hazlehurst had written the S Club 7’s hit Reach again, not true.

So, if you’re going to use any information from Wikipedia, make sure you double-check it first.

1.We can learn from the passage that ______.

A. because of its popularity, 78 million people from 270 countries visit Wikipedia monthly.

B. updated by people around the world, the site is more likely to be damaged by hackers.

C. anyone who has access to the Internet can edit any contents of Wikipedia as they like.

D. the primary job of the administrators is to make sure true information is conveyed.

2. What’s the writer’s attitude to Wikipedia?

A. Critical. B. Doubtful.

C. Objective. D. Positive.

3.Paragraph 5 mainly tells us ______.

A. it is really difficult to find out tiny items of false information.

B. no matter how famous the papers are, they can also be cheated.

C. you can never be careful enough while searching for information.

D. it was Sir Norman Wisdom who wrote the S Club 7’s hit Reach.

4.What’s the best title for the text?

A. How to look something up in Wikipedia?

B. Wikipedia has advantages and disadvantages

C. Why Wikipedia is so popular?

D. Wikipedia is reliable to use

根据短文内容，从后面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。

Smoggy weather has become common in China. But these days, air pollution levels in the northeastern city of Harbin surpassed the previous record levels.

The city was essentially shut down after PM2.5, fine particulate（微粒的） pollution that is considered dangerous, reached levels of 1,000 micrograms per cubic meter-1.. And therefore schools, motorways and an airport were closed on Tuesday as visibility in some areas of the city dropped to less than 10 meters.

2.. It stated that there is “ sufficient evidence” that exposure to outdoor air pollution causes lung cancer. 3.. Moreover, it’s said that exposure has increased significantly particularly in “rapidly industrial countries with large populations”.

On the Chinese social media site Weibo, many users complained about the pollution and shared their concerns. 4.. Nowadays, there is a sarcastic（讽刺的） play on the expression “serve the people”, as the two have a similar pronunciation.

“5.. There won’t be a sudden outbreak of symptoms, but normally three to five days after the smoggy weather occurs, there is a peak in the number of people seeing doctors,” a doctor said.

A. The impact of air pollution on people will be gradual.

B. Smog has been regarded as the biggest killer nowadays in China.

C. Just days previously, the WHO classified air pollution as a carcinogen（致癌物）.

D. The faster smog comes, the faster it goes away.

E. References to “feed people with smog” have become popular on Weibo.

F. 40 times the safety level reminded by the World Health Organization.

G. And meanwhile, the risk of bladder（膀胱）cancer is also closely connected with it.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从短文后所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Oxford and Cambridge have decided to remove the words CAN”T and IMPOSSIBLE from their dictionaries. Jessica Cox, 25, a girl born without arms, stands inside a(n)_______. Although she was born without arms, that has_______stopped her from doing one thing: using the_______ “can’t”.

Jessica got the Sport Pilot certificate recently and became the first pilot licensed to _______using only her feet. She made what’s seemingly _______become a reality. Her certificate _______her to fly a light sport aircraft of 10,000 feet.

“She’s a good pilot and she’s strong,” said Parrish Traweek, the flying_______at San Manuel’s Ray Blair Airport. Parrish Traweek_______a company of PC Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Services and has trained many pilots, some of whom didn’t come close to Cox’s_______. “When she came up here driving a car,” Traweek recalled, “I knew she’d have no_______flying a plane…”

Doctors never learned why she was born without arms, but she_______early on that she didn’t want to use prosthetic（假体的）_______.

Not only did Jessica Cox _______a license to fly airplanes on October 10, 2008, but she also has a college degree in psychology, and a successful_______as a motivational speaker. What doesn’t Jessica Cox have? Arms. From_______on, her feet became her hands. She can drive a car and fly an airplane using her feet, without any_______adaptations.

“I highly encourage people with_______to consider flying,” Cox said, “It helps_______the stereotype（老套）that people with disabilities are_______into the belief that they are powerful and capable of setting high_______and achieving them.”

1.A. aircraft B. wheelchair C. armchair D. microscope

2.A. still B. almost C. only D. yet

3.A. meaning B. motto C. speech D. word

4.A. leap B. jog C. fly D. flee

5.A. awesome B. impossible C. grand D. theoretical

6.A. scans B. drags C. bumps D. qualifies

7.A. instructor B. companion C. fellow D. architect

8.A. conducts B. resigns C. runs D. impairs

9.A. ability B. disability C. satisfaction D. boundary

10.A. ambition B. courage C. affection D. problem

11.A. spoke up B. figured out C. took up D. tested out

12.A. cushions B. tanks C. devices D. scanners

13.A. earn B. observe C. abolish D. envy

14.A. awareness B. reflection C. assessment D. career

15.A. time B. then C. birth D. now

16.A. elegant B. pure C. flexible D. special

17.A. faiths B. disabilities C. purposes D. decisions

18.A. change B. suck C. scare D. urge

19.A. steep B. unreliable C. powerless D. junior

20.A. thinking B. goals C. attempts D. profits