A.It is cleaner.

B.It has new owners.

C.It doesn't serve sunflower seeds.

The story began on July 8, 2017. Members of the Ursrey family, eight in total, were enjoying an evening together at the beach. As the sun sank lower on the horizon（地平线）, the two boys—Noah, 11, and Stephen, 8—took their skateboards and walked into the waves without the grown-ups noticing. When the boys were about 70 yards from shore, they realized that the ocean pulled them out to sea. After trying and failing to paddle（涉水）back, they started waving and screaming for help. But the lifeguards had clocked out for the evening.

The boys had been struggling for several minutes when Brittany and Tabatha Monroe, a married couple from Georgia, wandered by. They didn’t see the boys at first, but they heard them.

They jumped into the water and easily reached the brothers, who were still in fairly shallow water. The woman reassured the frightened boys and seized their skateboards, telling them they would be safe and then discovered that they, too, were now in a world of trouble. They couldn’t get back to shore and could barely and only occasionally hit the sandy bottom with their feet. After a few minutes, it was clear to the woman that they were all trapped in a terrible whirlpool.

Then scores of tourists were walking to them, hand in hand, forming a line. Soon the first person held the woman’s hand. In turn, her husband and the two boys joined her. The long line moved slowly until they were back to the safety of the beach.

The rescuers call it the Human Chain. But it was the deeply “human” aspect of the rescuers’ cooperation（合作）that made it so astonishing and successful.

【1】What happened to the two boys?

A. They got into deep sea by chance. B. They couldn’t be seen in the sea.

C. They went out without supper. D. They met with danger in the sea.

【2】What does the underlined word “reassured” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A. Saved. B. Comforted. C. Congratulated. D. Accompanied.

【3】Which of the following best describes the water the young couple stayed in?

A. It appeared calm on the surface. B. It was very deep.

C. It was mixed with sand. D. It moved fast.

【4】What made the four persons in the sea escape the risky situation?

A. Team spirit. B. Confidence. C. Good luck. D. Bravery.

Jonny Thomas, 14, Florida

When Jonny Michael Thomas decided to honor his friend and classmate Elizabeth Buckley, who died from cancer, he remembered how much she loved peacocks(孔雀).

He wanted to build a life-sized peacock fountain in Elizabeth’s favorite park in the city. He thought it could be a place for people to relax and be inspired.

Jonny raised $52,000 to build the fountain.

Barrett England, 13, Utah

The wheels began to turn for Barrett England when he heard about Karma Bike shop, a place where young people can earn a free bike by reading and performing community service.

Barrett visited Karma’s owner with his idea: He would collect and repair used bikes and donate them to the shop.

He expected to get about 10 donated bikes. In the end, Barrett received 39.

Zachary Blohm, 15, Wisconsin

The 25-year-old playground at an elementary school near Milwaukee, Wis., was so small that only 70 of its 575 students could play on it at a time.

That’s when Zachary Blohm saved the day. He and some volunteers build a huge playground. To raise money, Zac planned T-shirt and bake sales (烤饼义卖), sold tickets and more. He held monthly money-raising events for more than a year. Overall, he collected $130,000--- enough to finish his project.

Jack Zimmerman, 16, New Jersey

For some people, finding a meal is as simple as opening the refrigerator. For more than 366,000 hungry kids in New Jersey, it’s not that easy.

That fact didn’t sit well with Jack Zimmerman, who organized a drive to reduce childhood hunger in his state. His goal: create 40,000 packaged meals that could be donated to those in need.

On game day, Jack and his volunteers started their work. After the final count, the team had packaged 47,124 meals — well above Jack’s goal.

【1】The peacock fountain was built in a park ________.

A. in memory of a teenager B. for the love of animals

C. to encourage people D. to cure a cancer sufferer

【2】What did Barrett do for Karma Bike Shop?

A. He helped it win customers. B. He repaired bikes there.

C. He donated bikes to it. D. He offered a reading service there.

【3】Who improved a place for children to play?

A. Jack. B. Jonny. C. Barrett. D. Zachary.

【4】What do the four people have in common?

A. They’re top students. B. They care about others.

C. They like various public activities. D. They’re money raisers for the poor.

What is causing the mess? Milk chocolate. The problems began early Wednesday, after a huge truck carrying many tons of liquid chocolate overturned. Chocolate spilled out. It spread across six driveways of Poland’s A2 highway.

The liquid chocolate solidified（凝固）as it cooled, causing even more difficulties. The accident happened near the western Polish town of Slupca. Bogdan Kowalski is with the fire fighters of Slupca. He told the Associated Press that “the cooling chocolate is worse than snow”.

Videos published on social media showed rescuers and cleaners were trying to move the sticky brown mess with a bulldozer（推土机）.

The private Polish broadcaster TVN24 reported that the driver of the truck was taken to a hospital with a broken arm. The accident happened in the morning when there was little traffic. Nobody else was harmed.

The sticky situation became a hot topic on social media. Some people offered to help the clean-up workers by eating the chocolate themselves.

Marlene Kukawa is a media officer for Slupea police. She told the New York Times that rescue workers needed to remove the truck from the highway first. “The cleanup”, she said at the time, “will take a few hours or more.” She added that accidents are rare in this part of the A2 highway. And, she told the New York Times, she is sure the area has never experienced something quite like a huge chocolate spill.

【1】What caused the traffic trouble?

A. A broken-down car. B. Cars stuck on the highway.

C. Serious traffic accidents. D. The liquid chocolate.

【2】What made the situation even worse?

A. The difficulty to get rid of the chocolate. B. Fear caused by videos on social media.

C. The chocolate becoming hard. D. Snow falling on the highway.

【3】Why did some people offer to eat the chocolate?

A. To avoid wasting the chocolate. B. To reduce loss for the driver.

C. To play a joke. D. To solve the problem.

【4】What did Marlene Kukawa think of the incident?

A. It happened very rarely. B. It was the most serious accident.

C. It was unexpected by other drivers. D. It was lucky that no one was killed.

【1】. If you are just starting out, avoid the following things to help you increase your chances of running success.

Doing too much too soon

One of the biggest mistakes beginners make is doing too much too soon. Picking up a new hobby like running is no doubt exciting. Runners need to ease into the sport before increasing the distance.【2】.

【3】

Beginners might think they need to run nearly every day to meet their fitness or weight-loss goals, but this couldn't be further from the truth.【4】， especially for beginners whose muscles and bones haven't yet been conditioned for such intense (剧烈的) exercise. So it's important to give your body ample rest between workouts. Follow a training plan that includes rest days.

Comparing yourself to others

【5】, You're excited about running, so you are probably reading running blogs, magazines and message boards where you might start to feel inadequate about your own running pace. Instead of getting down on yourself， remember that every runner was once a beginner and use their success as motivation!

A. Not running every day

B. Not taking rest days

C. Running is a demanding activity which can be really hard on your body

D. As mentioned, a healthy routine is what they attach importance to

E. When starting out with running, it's tough not to compare yourself to others

F. Many make a number of common mistakes, which can interfere (干扰) with training or lead to injury

G. It will help reduce the risk of injury, so you can continue with your new running routine

Psychologists have discovered that most parents are over-confident in their children’s honesty and this may impair their ability to discover a lie.

The findings may help to explain why some parents seem to be willing to let their children get away with almost anything even in the face of the evidence. They say parents suffer from a “truth bias(偏见)” with their own youngsters, but when faced with lies from other people’s children, they have less difficulty telling if a statement is true or not.

Dr Angela Evans, a psychologist at Brock University in Canada, said, “The close relationship that parents share with their own children may lead to parents failing to detect their children’s lies. Parents’ truth bias may result in parents being less suspicious of their children, allowing them to successfully cheat them.”

Most children are thought to start lying as early as two years old but start telling more believable lies at around the age of four years old. Learning how to lie is considered as a key part of cognitive(认知的) and social development in children. But many parents are shocked when their children start lying to them. In their study, Dr Evans and her colleagues filmed 108 children aged between 8 and 16 as they performed a test after being asked not to look at the answers. They were then asked afterwards if they had looked, with 50 truthfully denying looking, 49 lying about looking and 9 admitting to looking.

Videos of those denying looking were then shown to 152 parents of children aged 8 to 16, 80 of whom had children who had taken part in the test. The researchers found that the parents were less able to spot lies told by their own children than by other people’s children.

【1】What does the underlined word “impair” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. Show. B. Develop. C. Recognize. D. Damage.

【2】When lying to their parents, children can’t be easily found because ________.

A. their parents aren’t prepared for the lies

B. their parents can’t notice any of their lies

C. they are very good at hiding their lies

D. they know how to lie to their parents

【3】What does Dr Evans want to find about children’s lying?

A. What makes parents lose trust in their children.

B. What causes children to tell lies to their parents.

C. What makes parents fail to see their children’s lies.

D. What affects children’s relations with their parents.

【4】What can be inferred from Dr Evans’s study in the last two paragraphs?

A. Parents tend to protect their own children.

B. Lying is a part of children’s development.

C. Children aged 8 to 16 are very likely to tell lies.

D. Parents can easily judge lies told by children of others.

【1】It’s not easy for you to r_________ from your illness in the room when it’s so dirty and dusty.

【2】Comparing the two big changes in English spelling at that time, the __________(后者) influenced American English spelling more.

【3】After g__________ from college, we finally got the chance to take a bike trip to the Mekong River.

【4】__________(祝贺)！We are pleased to tell you that you’ve won first prize in the competition.

【5】Elias was not w__________ to blow up government buildings at first, but he changed his mind after his conversation with Nelson Mandela.

【6】The Amber Room, which was a great gift to the Russian people, was also a treasure d__________ (装饰) with gold and jewels.

【7】She wanted to buy the bicycle at a lower price so she tried her best to make a b__________ with the shopkeeper.

【8】From then on, I grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower so I could s__________ different kinds of mathematical problems.

【9】You are the only one I can turn to for help, so I would greatly __________(感激) it if you could drive me there.

【10】Their performances were so __________(幽默的) that they immediately won thousands of fans from all over the world.

【1】What is the main purpose of the loud noises?

A.To warn people outdoors to get inside.

B.To get people's attention inside their homes.

C.To inform people without radios about danger.

【2】Who decides to turn on the system?

A.Local media.

B.Local officials.

C.The national weather service.

【3】Where does the speaker advise people to go after hearing a warning?

A.To a window.

B.To a public shelter.

C.To the middle of a building.

【4】What is the main topic of the talk?

A.A weather report.

B.A warning system.

C.The safety steps in bad weather.

1.说明情况。 2.表示歉意。 3.询问是否能退回订金。

注意：1. 字数100左右（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数）；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：旅行社travel agency;取消cancel;订金deposit.

Dear Sir or Madam,

I’m Li Hua, an exchange student here in New Zealand.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

1.表示歉意；2.解释原因；3.另约时间

注意：1. 词数100左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

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