Does that sound familiar to you? Do you do that often? If not, how do you feel when others do that when having dinner with you?

A recent study shows what we are used to doing is not so good. Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less satisfying. To test this, some researchers did an experiment. (Some people, before, were, take, asked, could, to, photos, enjoy food, they). It proved that the more photos they took, the less delicious the food seemed to them. So, why not stop taking photos and just enjoy the food in front of you?

Besides the scientific result, there are also some other bad influences of taking photos of food before meals. After posting the photos onto the Internet, one will involuntarily (不自觉地) check his mobile many times. “Does everyone like my photos? I hope a lot of people like them!” It seems that your mobile secretly calls your name all the time, even when you are with real people.

So, next time you go out to have dinner with your family or friends, how about not taking photos of food? Let the food be delicious as it is and share your life with people around you. Trust me. It will be a wonderful time.

【1】What happens a lot at the dinner table nowadays?

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【2】What does the recent study tell us about taking photos of food?

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【3】将文中括号内的单词连成一个句子，使短文意思通顺、完整。

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【4】What does the fourth paragraph mainly talk about?

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【5】What does the writer advise us to do while we’re having dinner with others?

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I’m very happy that there are shared bikes on the road. They have saved us a lot of time during special situations, and on beautiful, clear days, people enjoy riding them outside the city.

I tried shared bikes last week, and I didn’t like them very much. I think the first shared bikes without baskets are designed for athletes. They are very hard to ride, and the seats are not comfortable. It makes me wonder whether people really like riding shared bikes or are just saying this to agree with others.

A friend secretly told me she tried the bikes to fit in. She doesn’t like bikes and finds Beijing’s roads too hard for bike riding. But recently, the only way to hang out with her friends is riding out of town together. To join in social activities, she had to pick up bike riding again.

Another friend admitted that he started talking about and sharing photos on shared bikes to appear modern and fashionable to friends. He started paying attention when shared bikes first came into use.

These views will give me something new to think about when I ride these bikes again.

回答下面五个问题，每题答案不超过六个词。

【1】Where are shared bikes put?

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【2】Who does the writer think the first shared bikes are made for?

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【3】How does one of his friends hang out with his friends?

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【4】When does his another friend begin paying attention to shared bikes?

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【5】What did the writer think of shared bikes at the beginning?

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Letters Alive got its idea from a UK program with a similar name. Both shows invite famous actors and actresses, but there are no funny jokes or different competitions. Instead, it’s just one person walking up to a microphone and reading a letter.

The letters were written by people from different times in history. For example, in one episode(一集) they read a letter written by famous writer Xiao Hong to her younger brother in 1941. The letter shows that Xiao Hong missed her brother so much and had great hopes for his future.

Since its first episode on Dec 5, 2016, Letters Alive has been widely welcomed. Many audience members said that it has provided a breath of fresh air to today’s TV shows.

Apart from Letters Alive, some other cultural TV shows have also been well received by Chinese audiences. They include Chinese Poetry Conference (中国诗词大会), a classical Chinese poetry competition, and Readers(朗读者), a program that invites people to read poems and articles they like or wrote.

“This means that our audiences are not only looking for entertainment like gossip(八卦) and eye-catching games,” reported China Youth Daily. “Cultural values and true feelings are the keys to winning praise.”

回答下面5个问题，每题答案不超过5个词。

【1】What does the old habit mean in the first paragraph?

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【2】Who does the show invite to read letters?

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【3】When was the first episode of Letters Alive broadcast?

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【4】What do many audience members think Letters Alive provide to today’s TV shows?

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【5】What are important to be popular?

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The man-like robot looks like a small girl. It is four-feet tall with a tablet computer（平板电脑） set to its chest. It has human-like hands, a girl-like body and baby-like voice. It was shown to curious people in Tokyo stores on Friday by Softbank, a Japanese robotics company.

Pepper can examine facial expressions(面部表情)，human voice and signs, then make an answer. Pepper is designed to be a family robot, but it isn’t like Rosie who can do housework on the cartoon. Pepper is used at the home or the store, where we provide fun and entertainment.

Pepper gets power from love inside a family. Not only is he making jokes, makingthem laugh, it can also help people when they are in trouble. In a natural accident, it can help make those people who are sad or lonely feel relaxed, encourage them or make them laugh.

Pepper goes on sale in Japan for around $2,000 in February 2015. For now, several Peppers are at Softbank stores in Tokyo for people to visit. The creators say before selling Peppers, they want the robots to store more knowledge, to do better in gettingalong with human.

【1】What kind of robot is Pepper?

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【2】How can Pepper help humans in a natural accident?

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【3】Which robot do you want to have, Pepper or Rosie? Why?

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Thomas was very proud of his world record. His friends were proud of him, too. Whenever Thomas walked down the street, people always came up to him and shook his hand. Thomas was a star.

The only person who wasn’t proud of Thomas’s world record was his father. Dad didn’t like it when Thomas slept in. He complained that whenever Thomas slept in, the lawns didn’t get mowed. He was worried about how high the grass was getting. Every weekend, it seemed to get higher and higher. “It’s like a jungle there.” Dad moaned(抱怨) to Thomas one day. But Thomas wasn’t worried about the grass getting higher. He had more important things on his mind—— like sleeping in.

One morning, Thomas was woken from a deep sleep by a loud roaring noise. It sounded like a wild animal pacing about under his bedroom window.

Thomas rushed over to the window and pulled the curtains back. His eyes bulged like basketballs. “What on earth…？” He gasped. There, in the middle of the backyard, was a lion! “Awesome!” cried Thomas. Suddenly, a giraffe poked its head through the window. It munched the leaves from a plant sitting by Thomas’s bed. Next, an elephant walked past the swimming pool and squirted(喷出) water all over Dad’s car! “Cool!” cheered Thomas. “Now I don’t have to wash Dad’s car today.”…(选自《新理念英语阅读》)

【1】What is Thomas famous for?

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【2】How long did Thomas sleep in one weekend?

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【3】Was Thomas’s father proud of his son’s world record?

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【4】Why did Thomas say he didn’t have to Wash Dad’s car?(no more than ten words)

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【5】What do you think of Thomas’s world record for sleeping in?(no more than three words)

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随着互联网和手机终端发展，成瘾性网络游戏使一些中学生沉迷其中，影响了学习进步和身心健康。上周你们学校开展了一次以“How to keep students away from too many computer games ”为主题的专题讨论。请根据下表中的要点提示，写一篇短文，提出一些意见。

注意 1.短文应包括所给内容要点，可适当发挥，使文章连贯；

2.词数100左右，短文开头已给出，不计总词数；

3.文中不得提及考生所在的学校及自己的姓名；

Last week our school had a discussion on How to keep students away from too many computer games .The students have different opinions.

The first plastic was invented in 1869. That’s when American John Wesley Hyatt made a form of plastic from a plant material called cellulose. Before long, his discovery was used to make combs, eyeglasses, buttons, and film.

In the 1900s, petroleum products such as oil replaced cellulose. New kinds of plastic were discovered in the 1950s, and that’s when the real boom began. People started to use plastic in many fields instead of the old materials. Plastics quickly replace paper, glass, metal, and wood in a growing number of products. In 1960, the United States made 6 billion pounds of plastic. By 1988, the output had grown to 50 billion pounds. These days, almost 10 percent of the oil America uses every year is turned into plastic. That’s 2 million barrels of oil a day.

Most of the plastic ever made still exists. Unlike wood, metal, and paper, plastic does not break down easily. Some people think plastic will never break down. Others say it may take 500 or 1,000 years. No one knows for sure because it has been around for too short a time. But if George Washington had used plastic water bottles in the 1700s, those bottles would probably still be around.

Although plastic lasts a long time, we don’t keep plastic products very long. We use them and throw them away. Only about 5 percent of plastic is recycled. A huge amount of it ends up floating in the ocean. Then seabirds, seals, turtles, whales and fish eat it. Scientists often find sea animals that have starved（饿）to death with their stomachs full of plastic. And every time it rains, more trash from city streets flushes into the sea. Much of that trash is plastic.

What can we do about plastic? First, be aware. Oil takes millions of years to form. Should we use up this precious fuel to make flimsy shopping bags that are used once and thrown away? Should any animal pay for our convenience with its life? Each person’s actions can make a difference. It’s time to act now.

【1】What can we know about plastic?

A. Plastic is now widely used in every area of our daily life.

B. America holds the leading position in the world-wide use of plastic.

C. Plastic can last for more than 300 years and will never break down.

D. About 95% of plastic is used once and then thrown away.

【2】Which detail supports the idea that plastic can be dangerous?

A. Animals starve to death after eating plastic.

B. Much of that trash is plastic.

C. About 10 percent of the oil we use every year is made into plastic.

D. John Wesley Hyatt made the first plastic from cellulose.

【3】The underlined word “replace” in paragraph 3 means “______”.

A. Take the charge of B. Increase in value C. Take the place of D. Decrease in value

【4】What might be written in the following paragraph?

A. Reasons about why we should use less plastic.

B. Criticism on those who make and buy plastic.

C. Tips for using plastic in the environmental friendly way.

D. Difference between using plastic and other materials.

【5】What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Amazing Plastic. B. Dangerous Plastic. C. Useless Plastic. D. New Plastic

My teenage son Karl became withdrawn after his father died. As a single parent, I tried to do my best to talk to him. 【1】 When his report card arrived during his junior year, it said that he had been absent 95 times from classes and had six falling grades for the year. In this way he would never graduate. I sent him to the school adviser, and I even begged him. Nothing worked.

One night I felt so powerless 【2】 and asked God for help.“Please God, I can't do anything more for my son. I'm at the end of my hope. I'm giving the whole thing up to you.”

I was at work when I got a phone call. A man introduced himself as the headmaster. “I want to talk to you about Karl’s absences.” 【3】, I choked up（哽咽）and all my disappointment and sadness over Karl came pouring out into the ears of this stranger. “I love my son, but I just don’t know what to do. I've tried everything to get Karl to go back to school 【4】. It's out of my hands.”

For a moment there was silence on the other end of the line. The headmaster seriously said, “Thank you for your time”, and hung up.

Karl’s next report card showed a marked improvement in his grades. Finally, he was even on the list of the best students at school. In his fourth year, I attended a parent teacher meeting with Karl. I noticed that his teachers were surprised at the way he had turned himself around. On our way home, he said, “Mum, remember that call from the headmaster last year?" I nodded. “That was me. I thought I'd play a joke but when I heard what you said,

【5】. That’s when I knew I had to make you proud.”

A. and nothing has worked.

B. it really hit me how much I was hurting you

C. that I got down on my knees

D. I was really disappointed at you

E. Before he could say another word

F. when she was saying something

G. but the more I tried, the more he dulled away.

【1】谢谢你告诉我这个好消息。

____________ ____________ telling me the good news.

【2】尼泊尔地震后，无家可归的人们只好搭起帐篷，露宿街头。

After the earthquake in Nepal, the homeless people had to ____________ ____________tents and live on the street.

【3】济南人民正期盼着地铁R1线的开工建设。

The people in Jinan are____________ ____________to building Subway line R1.

【4】孙楠在我是歌手中意外退赛，使人们对汪涵的睿智表现点赞。

In I am a singer, Sun Nan was out of race by ____________, which made people admire Wang Han’s wise ___________.

【5】父母和孩子应该有更多的时间进行适当的交流，而不是整天各忙各的。

Parents and children should have more time for proper __________ ____________of being busy alone every day.

【6】森林可以阻止风把土壤吹走。

Forests can ________ wind from ________ the earth away.

【7】杰克的父母认为成为志愿者妨碍了他的学业。

Jack's parents believe that being a volunteer gets ________ ________ ________ of his schoolwork.

【1】Mary can play the piano well.（改为一般疑问句)

___________ Mary____________ the piano well?

【2】Tom likes reading books because books can give him knowledge.（就句子画线部分提问）

__________ ____________ Tom like reading books?

【3】“When do you get up?” the teacher asked me.（改写句子，句意不变)

The teacher asked me ____________ I ____________ up.

【4】Young people will succeed in the future as long as they keep working hard.（改写句子，句意不变)

If young people don’t ____________ ____________ , they will succeed in the future.

【5】Big Hero 6 is the winner of the Oscar Cartoon pictures this year.（改写句子，句意不变)

Big Hero 6 is ____________ as the ____________Cartoon picture this year.