【题目】A(2017·新课标全国卷Ⅰ)

Some of the world’s most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day. UNESCO( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying(联合) voice across cultures.

Despite the celebrations, though, in the U.S. the jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.

It’s Jason Moran’s job to help change that. As the Kennedy Center’s artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible, and preserve its history and culture.

＂Jazz seems like it’s not really a part of the American appetite,＂ Moran tells National Public Radio’s reporter Neal Conan. ＂What I’m hoping to accomplish is that my generation and younger start to reconsider and understand that jazz is not black and write anymore. It’s actually color, and it’s actually digital.＂

Moran says one of the problems with jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost. ＂The music can’t be presented today the way it was in 1908 or 1958. It has to continue to move, because the way the world works is not the same,＂ says Moran.

Last year, Moran worked on a project that arranged Fats Waller’s music for a dance party, ＂just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as it is concert music,＂ says Moran. ＂For me, it’s the recontextualization. In music, where does the emotion(情感) lie? Are we, as humans, gaining any insight(感悟) on how talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context,＂ says Moran, ＂so I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster.＂

【1】 Why did UNESCO set April 30 as International Jazz Day?

A. To remember the birth of jazz.

B. To protect cultural diversity.

C. To encourage people to study music.

D. To recognize the value of jazz.

【2】What does the underlined word ＂that＂ in paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Jazz becoming more accessible.

B. The production of jazz growing faster.

C. Jazz being less popular with the young.

D. The jazz audience becoming larger.

【3】 What can we infer about Moran’s opinion on jazz?

A. It will disappear gradually.

B. It remains black and white.

C. It should keep up with the times.

D. It changes every 50 years.

【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. Exploring the Future of Jazz

B. The Rise and Fall of Jazz

C. The Story of a Jazz Musician

D. Celebrating the Jazz Day

【题目】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。错误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：把多余的词作斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，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

Today is Sunday. The sky is full of sunshine，so does my life. At about 9：00 a.m.，I go to the bookstore with my friends，there was a lot of new books，I didn't know which one to buy，because these books were all use to me. At last，I chose two. At 10：00，we went to the cinema，the film calling Titanic was very popular. It took us about 3 hours to see. Having seen the film，and everyone was deeply moved. Some friends even burst out tears. From the story，I understand that love is noble and valuable. That’s a really wonderful film. It is very worth seeing again.

What a happy day！I hope tomorrow I will be even happy!

【题目】单句语法填空

阅读下面每句话，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。

【1】They spoke in ________（whisper）for fear that they should be heard.

【2】They were much ________（amuse）by the magician’s trick and were falling about.

【3】The ________（amuse）performance _______（amuse）everyone present.

【4】Your room is always ____ a mess. You should get it tidied.

【5】The workmen made so ____ mess that Mrs. Walker had to spend three days cleaning up afterwards.

【6】The students all wear the same uniform, so it’s hard for me to pick ________ my son among them.

【7】The other scientists ________（react）to her ideas with a mixture of criticism and silence.

【8】The lecture, ________（start）at 7:00 pm last night, was followed by an observation of the moon with telescopes.

【9】Sarah pretended to be cheerful, ________（say）nothing about the argument.

【10】The man went to bed ________（drink）, and when he woke up he found his shoes still on.

【11】Although he talked half an hour, he couldn't give us a good ________（explain）of the reason why he did it.

【12】Look over there—there’s a very long, winding path ________（lead）up to the house.

【题目】

--- You haven’t been to Beijing, have you?

--- How I wish to go there!

A. No, I haven’t.

B. Yes, l have.

C. No, I have.

D. Yes, I haven’t.

【题目】

--- Do we have to wait for him?

--- No, it no difference whether he will come or not.

A. has

B. causes

C. makes

D. gets

【题目】B

French writer Frantz Fanon once said: ＂To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.＂ Since the world changes every day, so does our language.

More than 300 new words and phrases have recently made it into the online Oxford Dictionary, and in one way or another they are all reflections of today’s changing world.

After a year that was politically unstable, it’s not hard to understand the fact that people’s political views are one of the main drives of our expanding vocabulary. One example is ＂clicktivism＂, a compound of ＂click＂ and ＂activism＂. It refers to ＂armchair activists＂ — people who support a political or social cause, but only show their support from behind a computer or smartphone. And ＂otherize＂ is a verb for ＂other＂ that means to alienate (使疏远)people who are different from ourselves — whether that be different skin color, religious belief or sexuality.

Lifestyle is also changing our language. For example, ＂fitspiration＂ — a compound of fit and inspiration — refers to a person or thing that encourages one to exercise and stay fit and healthy.

The phrase ＂climate refugee＂ — someone who is forced to leave their home due to climate change—reflects people’s concern for the environment.

According to Stevenson, social media was the main source for the new expressions. ＂People feel much freer to coin their own words these days,＂ he said.

But still, not all newly-invented words get the chance to make their way into a mainstream (主流的) dictionary. If you want t create your own hit words, Angus Stevenson, Oxford Dictionaries head of content development, suggests that you should not only make sure that they are expressive (有表现力的) and meaningful, but also have an attractive sound so that people will enjoy saying them out loud.

【1】 What is the article mainly about?

A. Some new word that got included into the online Oxford Dictionary.

B. The application of new words and phrases.

C. How a language mirrors the changing world.

D . The impact of social media on our language.

【2】The underlined word ＂coin＂ in the second-to-last paragraph probably means .

A. use B. record C. change D. create

【3】 How is the article mainly written?

A. By giving examples.

B. By making comparisons.

C. By following a timeline.

D. By presenting research findings.

【4】According to Stevenson, to make the words you invent popular, they should .

A. be easy to remember

B. have unique meanings

C. reflect the changing world

D. be meaningful, expressive and catchy

【题目】阅读理解

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 is it that makes people laugh? More than two thousand years ago the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined (定义) jokes as the pleasure that results from a feeling of triumph(胜利) by showing we're better than someone else in a certain way. According to Aristotle and many other philosophers，all jokes depend mainly on showing inferiority in another person or group of persons—that is，putting it clearly，on showing that they are worse off than ourselves. Jokes raise our good opinion of ourselves at someone else's expense.

Showing how much better than other people we are is only one reason we like jokes. Someone may also use a joke to express their anger or their cruelty or any other kind of action that is not acceptable to us. We feel free to laugh when we hear about someone sliding on a banana skin. The joke lets us express those attitudes which are usually unacceptable to society. This is probably the reason why some of the jokes，especially those involving cruelty，are so popular with certain people.

Besides，all jokes depend on our enjoyment of laughing at something that is strange and out of place because it's different from things which are happening around it. The same situation can be either sad or pleasant，depending entirely on how strange and out of place it is. If a girl in a bathing suit falls into a swimming pool，we don't laugh because nothing unusual has happened. But if a man in a smart suit falls in，the situation is at once unusual in a pleasant way and we laugh. A good joke-teller will always try to build up a situation in which one thing is expected until something unexpected suddenly happens，and so we laugh.

【1】According to Aristotle，all jokes depend mainly on ________.

A. showing inferiority in another person or group

B. resulting in a sense of success

C. having a good opinion of other people

D. making people laugh unexpectedly

【2】The underlined word “inferiority”(in Paragraph 1) means ________.

A. something that is not as good as something else

B. something that is better than something else

C. someone that is not as good as someone else

D. someone that is better than someone else

【3】What's the main idea of Paragraph 2?

A. Showing we are better than other people is the only one reason we like jokes.

B. When people are angry，they would like to hear jokes.

C. People who like jokes are usually cruel.

D. To express those attitudes usually unacceptable to society is one of the reasons we like jokes.

【4】What will a good joke teller always try to do?

A. Make a sad situation into a pleasant one.

B. Make different things happen at the same time.

C. Make an unexpected thing happen in an expected situation.

D. Make people laugh at something unusual and out of place.

【题目】书面表达

假如你是李华，你们学校要举行第一届校园艺术节，请你以组织者的身份邀请你的好朋友John来参加你们的艺术节。要点如下：

时间：2016年12月1日—3日

目的：丰富同学们的课余生活，展示自我，放松心情

主题：艺术让我们丰富

内容：歌咏比赛，乐器比赛，古典和民间音乐，流行歌曲

要求：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：艺术节art festival 歌咏比赛singing contest

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【题目】 a reply, he decided to write again.

A. Not receiving

B. Receiving not

C. Not having received

D. Having not received

【题目】单词拼写

根据所给汉语提示或首字母写出单词。

【1】We must appoint a new teacher at once to that __________(多山的) primary school.

【2】He closed the door before she could stammer out her __________(解释).

【3】The children are very __________(被逗乐的) with the monkey.

【4】She __________(低声说),“Thank you for everything,” before he walked out the door.

【5】My father was __________(喝醉的) almost every day while I was growing up.

【6】Explain what happened and how the person r__________ to the blame.

【7】She employed a private d__________ to keep a watch on her husband.

【8】The apartment is in a m__________ after the party.

【9】He accompanied her t__________ her stay there.

【10】It’s a v__________ city, but the historic center is quite small.