Chokwe developed the app with his friends Rodriguez Ratliff and Emmanuel Brooks. When the app detects a pothole, it is highlighted in red. And if you get close to the pothole, your phone will warn you with a beep. Drivers can also use the app to report any potholes and look for other routes they can take to avoid roads that have them.

The app relies on current available information about the streets of Jackson, already stored in a database of the city’s 311 call system. Through the call system, citizens dial 3-1-1 to report non-emergency problems which include potholes. Chokwe and his friends determined that focusing on the 10 busiest streets in Jackson would give them a large enough sample size to test the prototype.

While developing the app, the boys took part in a Minority Male Makers Program sponsored by Verizon and held at Jackson State University. They learned 3D printing and design, and how to create apps. Through the program Chokwe and his friends received encouragement and guidance.

Although the app isn’t yet available for sale, Chokwe is already looking for ways to improve the app. He hopes to add more to it until it spreads all over the country.

【1】Why is the car damage mentioned in the first paragraph?

A. To scold the road builders.

B. To introduce their bad luck.

C. To tell the inspiration for the app.

D. To warn the danger of careless driving.

【2】What is the app used to do?

A. Warn drivers about potholes.

B. Help drivers obey traffic rules.

C. Stop drivers using mobile phones.

D. Tell drivers to avoid red lights.

【3】How does the app work through the 311 call system?

A. By replying to citizens’ calls.

B. By broadcasting traffic accidents.

C. By settling non- emergency problems.

D. By using its information about potholes.

【4】Which can be Chokwe’s future target?

A. Encouraging more kids to create apps.

B. Taking part in more learning programs.

C. Making the app available for sale online.

D. Making the app include streets nationwide.

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以下作文。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。

In recently years, the sandstorm has occurred a lot of times, doing great harm to our daily life. Some people would rather to stay at home for fear of the dirty air caused by the sandstorm. Diseases relate to sandstorm get more and more people to hospital. What’s worse, many flights have to put off.

It’s an urgent task for us to take actions to stop sandstorms from happen. All citizens should raise our awareness of protecting the environment. We should plant more trees and don’t cut them down or dig up grass, where can contribute for land protection. Only in this way can we had a bluer sky and a better world to live in.

They spent a couple of 【2】 (day) on the farm of what would be considered a poor family.

On their return, the father asked the elderly boy 【3】 (explain) what he had learnt. To his surprise, the boy, who had kept 【4】 (silence) and deep in thought on the journey home,

【5】 (reply) in a way that shocked his father.

“I want to become a farmer, 【6】 the farmers can enjoy the beautiful night stars while we have only expensive lanterns.” Finally, he asked his father, "What makes us safer, large walls around our house or some friends 【7】 will protect us?"

After a while, the boy finished by saying, "Before the trip I thought we 【8】 (be) rich but today I learnt who is 【9】 (true) rich." With this, the boy got up and walked away,

【10】 (leave) his father sitting on their comfortable sofa, totally speechless.

1. 旅行信息（如景点等）；

2. 当地特色（如食品等）；

3. 注意事项。

注意：1. 词数：100左右；

2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总数；

3. 可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

Dear Sir or Madam,

I’m Li Hua, a Chinese student, studying in New Zealand. I’m writing to _______________________________________________________________________________

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Li Hua

When you drive the app on your phone, it shows you, with green bars that increase or decrease, how close or far away you are from the Tile. You can also program it to make a sound when you get close to the Tile. And you can link up your phone with up to ten Tiles. And if your lost object — a dog, for example, or a stolen bike — go out of your own phone’s 150-foot Bluetooth range, you can set it as a “lost item”. If any of the phones with the Tile app comes within range of your lost item, a message will be sent to your phone, telling you its position. The Tile app also has the function to remember where it last saw your Tile, so that you can easily find where you left it.

Since the Tiles use Bluetooth rather than GPS, they are never out of battery or needn’t to be charged, and they work for one year before needing to be replaced. And the app works with all generations of iPhones and iPads.

For further information, please visit www. tile666.com.

【1】What can the Tile app help you?

A. To find other phone users.

B. To find your missing items.

C. To save your phone’s power.

D. To use your phone more wisely.

【2】What does the second paragraph mainly tell us?

A. What the Tile app is.

B. How the Tile app works.

C. Why the Tile app was created.

D. What the advantages of the Tile app are.

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A. The Tile need be charged after a year of use.

B. One smart phone can only be linked up with one Tile.

C. The Tile can’t be linked up with a phone without Bluetooth.

D. A missing item can’t be found if it goes out of your phone’s Bluetooth range.

【4】Where does the passage probably come from?

A. A news report. B. Science fiction.

C. A personal diary. D. An advertisement.

1. 表示难过和理解。

2. 帮助他分析失败原因。

3. 勉励他。

注意：1. 词数100左右。

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：决赛：the finals

Dear Li Ming,

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Li Hua

Firstly，the teacher's personality should be lively and attractive. This does not rule out people who are plainlooking，or even ugly，because many such people have great personal charm. 【1】.

Secondly，it is not merely desirable but essential for a teacher to have a capacity for sympathy，a capacity to understand the minds and feelings of children. 【2】—not of what is wrong，but of the weaknesses and immaturity of children，which cause them to make mistakes.

Thirdly，I hold it essential for a teacher to be both intellectually and morally honest. This means that he will be aware of his intellectual strengths and limitations，and will have thought about and decided upon the moral principles by which his life shall be guided. 【3】. That is part of the technique of teaching，which demands that every now and then a teacher should be able to put on an act—to enliven(使生动)a lesson，correct a fault，or award praise.

A teacher must be capable of infinite patience. 【4】，for we are none of us born like that.

Finally，I think a teacher should have the kind of mind which always wants to go on learning. 【5】；there is always something more to learn about. There are three principal objects of study：the subjects which the teacher is teaching；the methods by which the subjects can best be taught to the particular pupils in the classes he is teaching；most importantly，the children，young people，or adults to whom the subjects are to be taught.

A．This，I may say，is largely a matter of selfdiscipline and selftraining

B．Closely related to this is the capacity to be tolerant

C. Teaching is a job at which one will never be perfect

D．Children，especially young children，live in a world that is rather larger than life

E．There is no contradiction (自相矛盾)in my going on to say that a teacher should be a bit of an actor

F．But it does rule out such types as the overexcitable，sad，cold，and frustrated

G．There are two fundamental principles of British education today

My daughter, Jane, never dreamed of receiving a letter from a girl of her own age in Holland. Last year, we were travelling across the 【1】 and Jane put a piece of paper with her name and address on it into a bottle . She 【2】 the bottle into the sea. She never thought of it again, but ten minutes later, she received a letter from a girl in Holland. Both girls write to each other 【3】 now. However, they have decided to use the post office. Letters will cost a little more, but they will certainly travel faster.

Passage 2:

I had a letter from my sister yesterday. She lives in Nigeria. In her letter , she said that she would come to England next year. If she comes, she will get a 【4】 . We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun 【5】 my sister left. The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks【6】 to some people. It 【7】 be the only modern house in the district.

Passage 3:

I enter the hotel manager’s office and sat down. I had just lost 50 and I felt very upset.‘I left the money in my room,’I said, ‘and it’s not there now.’The manager was

【8】 , but he could do nothing. ‘Everyone’s losing money these days,’he said. He started to complain about this wicked world but was 【9】 by a knock at the door. A girl came in and put an envelop on his desk. It contained 50 . ‘I found this【10】 this gentleman’s room,’she said. ‘Well,’I said to the manager, ‘there is still some honesty in this world! ’

Tina woke up early and immediately her thought turned to what happened yesterday. Her boss told her that she would be getting a _【1】___(promote). He explained that her extraordinary enthusiasm__【2】_ tireless effort had made her just the type of person he needed.

Tina smiled__【3】____(remember) his words and she felt proud of herself. She got up, smiled in the mirror and practically danced to the train station. __【4】___the way people noticed her mood and smiled at __【5】___. Some wished her a good day. At the tram everybody around her suddenly felt the urge__【6】___(smile).

Strangers on the train started conversations with each other. Tina was___【7】___ (surprise). Were all these people feeling her happiness? On her way to the office she_【8】___ (see) herself in a store window. Her whole face was glowing(发光). ___【9】___ (sudden) she realized that her smiling face might have been responsible for all the joy. This thought made Tina even__【10】___(happy). She was ready to face the first day of her new position in the company and she brought with her the memory of the impact she had on all those “strangers on a train”.