【题目】Gabby Logan was a gymnast when she was young. She is now the 39-year-old mother of seven-year-old twins, Reuben and Lois. The other day on TV she was dressed in a new swimsuit, which was designed to show off her nice figure, which was admired by a great number of television viewers.

Gabby, who won high praise for her television show of the Olympics, has asked the woman of the whole nation to go to the swimming pool, saying the secret of her figure is regular swimming. She is also making advertisements for the new Sculpture Swimwear of Speedo, an international swimsuit company, to help women find the perfect swimsuit.

Gabby said, "We all felt uneasy about getting into our swimwear at first. But we should be excited by the sporting achievements we have seen at the Olympics this summer. To get ourselves a little healthier, have a try and go to the swimming pool. " Then she said," Swimming is the perfect exercise if you want to feel healthy or simply relax. I find that going for a swim always clears my mind and also gives me some valuable 6 my time'. I like the calm of swimming which I can't experience when I am not in the pool. "

A study by Speedo, an International company, which sells swimsuits, reported the biggest reason why women were put off going to the pool was the way they looked in swimwear. More than half of the l,000 women surveyed have been reduced to tears when trying on swimwear. And 48 percent said they felt too self-conscious to go swimming with their children. Sally Polak, from Speedo, said, " We're hoping to give women the courage and confidence to get back into the water. "

【1】What can we learn about Gabby Logan?

A. She has two children of the same age.

B. She appeared on TV to show off her nice figure.

C. She was a swimmer when she was young.

D. She took part in the Olympic Games when she was young.

【2】What is the main reason why Gabby has a nice figure?

A. She is a gymnast.

B. She often swims.

C. She has a peaceful mind

D. She wears Sculpture Swimwear.

【3】The biggest reason why most women were stopped from swimming is_ .

A. their shy mind of wearing the swimsuit

B. their being too busy with their housework

C. their not being comfortable in the swimsuit

D. their being afraid of their child seeing them wear less

【4】What is the author's purpose of writing the text?

A. To introduce a famous woman.

B. To discuss a TV show of the Olympics.

C. To report a way of keeping a good figure.

D. To encourage women to go swimming.

【题目】书面表达

Rilla 将她的烦恼写在了博客上并征求大家的建议。假如你是吉林的李丹，请了解她的烦恼，根据以下提示写出你的建议，要求100词左右，建议的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

要点提示：

1. 孩子应尊重父母；

2. 父母经验丰富；

3. 父母的要求是对你的成长有好处的。

4. 多同父母交流沟通；

5. ………

词语提示：respect v.﹠n.尊重

responsible adj. 有责任感的

demand v.﹠n. 要求

Here is Rilla’s problem on the Blog:

My problem is my parents. They never stop going on about (唠叨) how I should keep my room clean, keep my hair tidy and wear smart clothes. They even make me do the washing-up after dinner every night! None of my friends have got such terrible parents. What should I do?

Rilla , the USA

Hi , Rilla. I think you are lucky to have such good parents.

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Li Dan , Jilin

【题目】I never knew how amazing it would feel to help a family 4,560 miles away from my home. I never knew how great an effect I could have on that single family.

From the moment I walked into French class, I knew almost instantly that I belonged there. My teacher, Madame Weiser, is a kind and caring woman, and is the person who started the interest within me to help a family abroad, no matter how many miles apart.

Back in 2011, my teacher traveled as a tourist to Maxi, a country settled in West Africa with a large French-speaking population. She didn’t expect to adopt an entire family, but fate had other plans. Madame met a nice man named Monsieur Diarra, a driver who had shown her the way through the dry lands of Mali.

Mali is now a war-torn country and unsafe for tourists to visit, leaving little work for taxi drivers. Madame Weiser realized how Monsieur Driarra’s family struggled on a daily basis, for he had a wife and four children to support as well as their grandmother, so she made a final decision to send the family as much money as she could raise every month.

Now, three years later, Madame Weiser has still kept up her fund, collecting money from family and friends as well as students to support the cause. It has become more than just my teacher donating to her adopted family abroad.

As president of French Club at my high school and a French Honor Society member, I decided that our club should work to raise money for the family in need. By washing cars, we raised over $1,000.

From my experience, I’ve learned that making an effort is worth more than anything. Its effect is priceless!

【1】 Why do taxi drivers have difficulty finding work in Mali?

A. People don’t like taking a taxi.

B. Tourists visiting Mali are few.

C. Mali is very unsafe for them.

D. Public transport is enough.

【2】 What does the underlined expression “the cause” refer to?

A. Teaching Trench in West Africa.

B. Looking for jobs for the drivers in Mali.

C. Helping the homeless as much as possible.

D. Donating money to the adopted family abroad.

【3】 What did the writer think of her experience?

A. Boring B. Puzzling

C. Satisfying. D. Relaxing.

【4】 What is the best title of this passage?

A. The Love for Africa. B. A Kind Foreign Driver.

C. My Helpful Teacher D. My Unforgettable Class

【题目】

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

I can well remember that I was once asked to deliver a speech titled A Real Test in My Life before the whole class at the age of 9! You can imagine how【1】 (terrible) shy I was the moment I thought of that---with so many eyes【2】(fix) upon me. I had no 【3】 (choose) but to prepare for it ,though. First of all, I was to draft the speech, which was just a piece of cake for me, a good writer. But the hardest part 【4】 (lie) in my oral presentation from my memory, for to read from the paper was not allowed. The real moment began 【5】 I stood on the platform with my legs trembling and my mind blank. But my 【6】 (listen) were waiting patiently without any signs of rushing me. Gradually I found myself back, giving out my speech with difficulty. After what seemed to be a hundred years, I found my audience applauding----I made 【7】 ! From then on, my fear of talking before a big audience 【8】 (appear). Actually with my confidence building up, I now turn out to be a great speaker. 【9】 (look) back, I know the greatest difficulty on our way 【10】 success is our fear. Overcome it, and we will be able to achieve our goals.

【题目】 Culture is one of the most challenging elements of the international marketplace. This system of learned behavior patterns characteristic of the members of a given society is constantly shaped by set of dynamic variables: language, religion, values and attitudes, manners and customs, aesthetics, technology, education, and social institutions. To cope with this system, an international manager needs both factual and interpretive knowledge of culture. To some extent, the factual knowledge can be learned; its interpretation comes only through experience.

The most complicated problems in dealing with the cultural environment stem from the fact that one cannot learn culture—one has to live it. Two schools of thought exist in the business world on how to deal with cultural diversity. One is that business is business the world around, following the model of Pepsi and McDonald’s. In some cases, globalization is a fact of life; however, cultural differences are still far from converging.

The other school proposes that companies must tailor business approaches to individual cultures. Setting up policies and procedures in each country has been compared to an organ transplant; the critical question centers around acceptance or rejection. The major challenge to the international manager is to make sure that rejection is not a result of cultural myopia or even blindness.

Fortune examined the international performance of a dozen large companies that earn 20 percent or more of their revenue(税收) overseas. The internationally successful companies all share an important quality: patience. They have not rushed into situations but rather built their operations carefully by following the most basic business principles. These principles are to know your adversary, know your audience, and know your customer.

【1】According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A. All international managers can learn culture.

B. Business diversity is not necessary.

C. Views differ on how to treat culture in business world.

D. Most people do not know foreign culture well.

【2】What does the underlined word “myopia” (in para. 3) mean?

A. difference B. similarity

C. foresight D. shortsightedness

【3】 We can infer from the passage that this article is supposed to be most useful for those_______

A. who are interested in researching the topic of cultural diversity

B. who have connections to more than one type of culture.

C. who want to travel abroad.

D. who want to run business on International Sale

【4】 According to Fortune, successful international companies___________ .

A. earn 20 percent or more of their revenue overseas

B. all have the quality of patience

C. will follow the overseas local cultures

D. adopt the policy of internationalization

【题目】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。

Memory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. 【1】 But even if you are successful, there are times when your memory seems to play tricks on you.

【2】 One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remember locking it carefully the night before.

【3】 Once in a while you remember not doing something, and then find out that you did. One day last month, for example, I was sitting in a barber（理发师）shop waiting for my turn to get a haircut, and suddenly I realized that I had got a haircut two days before at the barber shop across the street from my office.

We always seem to find something funny and amusing（有趣的）in incidents caused by people’s forgetfulness or absent-mindedness. 【4】 Unfortunately, however, absent-mindedness is not always funny. 【5】

A. Stories about absent-minded professors have been told for years, and we never got tired of hearing new ones.

B. Memory “trick” work the other way as well.

C. If you have the wish and really made a conscious（自觉的）effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things.

D. Generally forgetting things is serious and dangerous.

E. It is necessary to remember the way to protect yourself from memory “tricks”.

F. There are times when “trick” of our memory can cause us great trouble.

G. Sometimes you remember things that really did not happen.

【题目】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。选项中有多余选项。

Five reasons your scale might be wrong

1. You weigh yourself on different days each week.

In a Cornell university study published last year, researchers analyzed the food weight diaries that 80 people kept for up to a year. They found that people’s weight changed considerably throughout the week. 【1】 Keep weigh-in days consistent for a more accurate assessment.

2. 【2】

File this one under “Yes, scientists have actually studied this.” When University of North Dakota researches weighed people with and without clothes at various times of the year, they found that men can reduce 2.5 pounds for their clothing and women can reduce around two pounds, on average.

3. You don’t take muscle gain into consideration.

You’ve heard that muscle is denser (密度大的) than fat. 【3】 If you start a strength-training routine, the number on the scale (秤) might not change, but you could still lost inches and drop a clothing size or two.

4. You just drank a lot of water.

It’s called water weight for a reason: Drinking one pound of water can translate to about one pound of weight. So if you stand on the scale soon after drinking an entire water bottle’s worth, you might not like what you see. 【4】

5. You weigh yourself after hard exercise.

Compared with water weight, if you weigh in after a tiring cycling class, you may lose weight temporarily because you work up a good sweat . 【5】

A．You miscalculate your clothing.

B．But don’t worry, it’s just a temporary/span> gain.

C．Salty foods cause your body to save extra water.

D．In fact, it takes up only about a third as much space.

E．Jump on the scale if you need to improve.

F．You should be aware of how much water you have drunk.

G．Many people were heaviest on Mondays and lightest on Fridays.

【题目】America used to have a strong college education system for prison inmates (prisoners). It was seen as a way to rehabilitate men and women in prison by helping them go straight when they got out.

Those taxpayer-supported college classes were put to an end in the 1990s. But New York Governor Andrew Cuomo would like to bring them back in the state, setting off a fierce new debate.

A number of lawmakers in New York have promised to kill Cuomo’s proposal (提议).

Cuomo says reintroducing taxpayer-funded college classes in New York’s prisons is a common-sense plan that will reduce the number of inmates who commit new crimes.

“You pay $ 60,000 for a prison cell for a year,” Cuomo responded. “You put a guy away for 10 years, and that’s $600,000. Right now, chances are almost half. Once he’s set free, he’s going to come right back.”

Cuomo says helping inmates get a college education would cost about $ 5,000 a year per person. He argues, “It’s a small amount of money if it keeps that inmate from bouncing back into prison.”

But even some members of the governor’s own party hate this idea. State Assemblywoman Addie Russell, whose upstate district includes three state prisons, says taxpayers just won’t stand for inmates getting a free college education, while middle-class families struggle to pay for their kids’ college fees.

“That is the vast majority of feedback (反馈) that I’m also getting from my constituents (选民)，” she says. “You know, ‘Where is the relief for the rest of the population who obey the law ?’ ”

“I was very disappointed that the policy had been changed,” says Gerald Gaes, who served as an expert on college programs for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in the 1990s. In 1994, President Clinton stopped federal student aid programs for inmates.

Gaes says research shows that college classes actually save taxpayers’ money over time, by reducing the number of inmates who break the law and wind up back in those expensive prison cells.

“It is cost-effective,” he says. “Designing prisons that way will have a long-term benefit for New York State.”

【1】The underlined word “rehabilitate” probably means “ ”.

A．let people know more about prisoners.

B．help someone have a normal life again.

C．allow prisoners to experience the world.

D．encourage someone to help other people.

【2】What is the debate about ?

A．Lawmakers’ rights in New York.

B．College classes for New York’s citizens.

C．Higher education in New York’s prisons.

D．Punishments given to New York’s criminals.

【3】Cuomo does the calculations to prove .

A．almost half of prisoners are likely to come back into prison.

B．college classes for inmates can save taxpayers’ money.

C．the costs of running prisons in the US are on the rise.

D．it is very difficult to reduce the number of inmates.

【4】Most of Russell’s constituents believe Cuomo’s proposal .

A．is unfair to middle-class families.

B．will benefit citizens obeying laws.

C．will be useless for improving prisons.

D．is based on most taxpayers’ feedback.

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【题目】 书面表达

假如你是某中学的学生Tom。前不久，你参加了全国英语演讲比赛并获得一等奖。请用英语给校刊写一篇文章，谈谈你的体会。内容主要包括：

1．付出才有回报；

2．收获自信和友谊；

3．感激之情。

注意1．词数100左右；

2．可适当增加细节以使行文连贯；

3．开头语已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Looking back to the National English Speaking Competition I took part in several days ago，I have a lot to share with you.