阅读下面材料，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。

David will never for get what happened to him the day before yesterday．He1.(eat)something at home when he received a strange phone call from a hospital．The caller said that his son 2.(fall) to the ground unconscious on the way to schoo1．It was he3.took him to the hospital．David hung up his cell phone and rushed to his son’s classroom，only to find him listening to the teacher attentively．He suddenly realized that he had been cheated，but he felt4. (relieve)．Just at that time the phone rang again，saying，“Your son is in great danger and he needs5.immediate operation which costs 48，000 yuan．The doctors here say they will not operate6.your son until they receive the money．’’When 7.(ask) from where the caller had taken his son to hospital，the caller rang off．David gave a big smile and said．“What a pity!”

If the cheater thought he could get money from David in such a8.(honest)way, he was wrong．Such phone calls are common these days．A few of them might have fallen victims to such tricks．Most parents are sensitive to9.．It was really silly to cheat well—educated men like David．

Believe it or not，it’s a true story．The10.(colleague)in his office can confirm it，such as Tom，Peter and so on．

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短文。短文中共有10处错误，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(∧)，并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

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，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

This afternoon I went to see my grandfather by a bus．It was very crowded and I had to stand．Besides me，there was a woman hold a little boy in her arms．In front of her, a young man occupies two seats，pretending to be sleeping．I heard the little boy curious asking his mother, “What’s wrong with the uncle?” I had thought if perhaps the woman would blame the man．Beyond her expectations，the woman answered with a smile，“Be quiet．This uncle must very tired because of hard work．”The young man must have heard the word．His face turned red but offered one seat to the woman at once．

如今，我们身边不乏“低头族”。他们在与朋友聚会、家人团聚或乘坐交通工具时，常常低头忙于浏览手机。请简要描述此现象，并发表你的看法。

提示词：低头族phubbing

注意：1．词数100左右；

2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3．开头语己为你写好。

Driving to the airport in the early morning, I felt excited. Although I was heading abroad for my first time alone, I felt cheerful and enthusiastic. I was spending the summer in Paris.

While looking for more interesting things to do besides sleeping and eating, I found programs for learning languages abroad, and jumped at the chance to study French in this city known for its art, fashion, food, and culture. As I arrived at the airport where I would leave my family, I still felt only great happiness. I excitedly made my way through security, leaving my loved ones behind.

My connecting flight was in Frankfurt, Germany, 14hours from Denver. Sitting in a crowded plane watching bad movies couldn’t dampen my excitement. When the woman next to me asked me where I was going, I happily answered and was pleased to note a tone of jealousy in her response.

But when I arrived in Frankfurt, fear and anxiety began to set in. Being in an enormous, busy building in a country where I couldn’t speak the language was frightening, but as I found my way, I gained confidence. When I boarded the second plane and discovered that the flight was less than an hour, I was filled with excitement as I thought of how I would manage in a country with a new language.

When I stepped on the ground of Pairs for the first time, I was extremely happy and excited. I gathered my bags and joined the crowd of people waiting for friends and family. I quickly had my first experience trying to communicate in a language that I had only practiced in school. As I left the airport, I looked for familiar monuments I had read about, but the landscape looked very ordinary. Then，with one sharp turn, the Eiffel Tower came into view, and I was finally in Pairs.

1.Which of the following is True according to the passage?

A. It was the first time that the writer had traveled abroad.

B. In the new term the writer was to study French in Paris.

C. The crowded plane made the writer less excited.

D. The writer flew to Paris via another country.

2.What can we learn from the passage?

A. The writer was travelling with a woman friend of her parents’.

B. Arriving in Paris, the writer saw some family friends waiting for her.

C. The writer was not along when travelling to the airport in Denver.

D. The writer had great difficulty communicating with people in French.

3.What is the passage mainly about?

A. The writer’s excitement and happiness on her journey to Paris.

B. The writer’s exciting experiences of studying French in Paris.

C. The writer’s expectation for French art, fashion, food and culture.

D. The writer’s excitement resulting from her first ride on a plane

A group of foreign residents married to Japanese talked about their children’s names.

Nicole Despres

Students services manager, 40 (American)

We have no intention to live outside Japan so it made sense for the kids to take my Japanese husband’s family name. However, we did want to have a Western name too, so all three of them now have both a Western and Japanese name. We agreed there would be no strange names, spelling or unusual kanji(Chinese characters in the Japanese language). All names had to be easy to say and familiar in both Japanese and English.

John McCracken

Company general manager, 27(American)

My son’s name is Aiden. In part because my wife and I met in university and as she was studying Irish history and I have some links to Scotland and Ireland, I wanted a unique Gaelic(盖尔族的)name. We settled for Aiden as we found kanji that can be used in Japan that means “legendary hero”

Paula Murakami

College women’s Association of Japan, 53(American)

My husband was very excited about choosing names, so I decided to let him choose. He wanted their first names to be Japanese and camp up with names that included the kanji character in his own name. Our boys, Hiroki and Kenta, never had any problems while living on the U.S. West Coast with Japanese names, and I think both as children and as adults, they love their names.

Jeff Ruiz

Recording engineer, 42(Mexican)

My son’s name is Lenny. My wife chose it together with me as we were looking for a name that works in both worlds — mine in Mexico, and hers in Japan — and the name Lenny is common everywhere. In Japanese we write the name in katakana as that is easy for Japanese people who seem to like names in two or three characters.

1.What do we know about the people mentioned in the passage?

Nicole and her husband had an agreement on how to name the children.

B. Jeff will remain in Japan as his wife is not used to Mexican life.

C. The four couples have decided to live with the children in Japan forever.

D. Paula and her family would love to live on the U.S. West Coast.

2.Which of the following does the underlined word “katakana” mean?

A. A Japanese system of grammar.

B. A way of writing the Japanese language.

C. A Japanese word which means “name”.

D. A name popular with Japanese people.

3.What can we infer from the passage?

Nicole and her Japanese husband have a daughter and two sons.

B. Paula has little say in making a decision at home.

C. John’s wife is Irish and the couple have only one child.

D. Lenny is a name familiar to Japanese when written the Japanese way.

4.Which would be the best title for the passage?

Is a western name better than a Japanese name?

B. Why does your child have two names?

C. How do you choose your child’s name?

D. Do you settle differences in naming your child?

Washington: NASA has announced evidence that Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, has a saltwater ocean under its icy surface. The ocean seems to have more water than all the water on Earth's surface, according to new Hubble observation.

New Hubble observations of Ganymede's magnetic field strongly suggest that the moon, which is the largest in our whole solar system, is home to a subsurface ocean.

Scientists estimate the ocean is 95 kilometres thick, which is about 10 times deeper than Earth's oceans. But unlike our salty waters, Ganymede's ocean is buried under 150 kilometres of ice.

While scientists have speculated(推测) since 1970s about the presence of an ocean on Ganymede------the largest moon in our solar system------ until now the only observational evidence came from a brief flyby by the Galileo spacecraft, which didn’t observe the moon long enough to confirm a liquid ocean.

This discovery marks an important milestone, highlighting what only Hubble can accomplish. In its 25 years in orbit, Hubble has made many scientific discoveries in our own solar system. A deep ocean under the icy surface of Ganymede opens up further exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth.

Scientists have already confirmed the existence of an ocean on Europe, another moon orbiting Jupiter, and NASA has announced plans to send an unmanned mission there searching for the life that might come with liquid water.

Hubble is a telescope that orbits Earth, but because of its impressive gravitational analyses it can be used to study the inside of far distant planets. Using these same principles, scientists could theoretically detect oceans on distant planets as well.

1.What can we learn about the Ganymede from the passage?

It is a planet with the largest moon in our whole solar system.

B. Its ocean adds to people’s excitement about life beyond Earth.

C. It will be used by NASA as a base for the Hubble telescope.

D. Its liquid ocean was first proved by the Galileo spacecraft.

2.Which of the following best describes the writer’s attitude towards Hubble?

A. Cautious B. Doubtful

C. Negative D. Favourable

3.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 6 mean?

An underground ocean has been found in Europe.

B. The presence of an underground ocean in Europe is not possible.

C. It is now certain that there is an ocean on Europe.

D. No evidence has shown the existence of an ocean on Europe.

4.What type of writing does this passage belong to?

A. A term essay

B. A news report

C. An experiment report

D. An exploration review.

The earth is dying before us yet we sit and watch. If the TV or the game system breaks, we run off to the stores to get it fixed immediately no matter what the cost. Why aren’t we willing to fix our earth? Are our televisions and game systems more important to us than where we live? Where shall we continue to live, until the end of time?

The earth is our home and cannot be replaced. We must take care of it. We have come up with so much technology that limits us instead of helping us. Take that game system we run to repair. What does it do? It occupies kids’ time! The earth has already given kids plenty of entertainment in the forms of fields and hills, forests and plains, water and land. However, instead of using what the earth has given us, and helping kids by giving them exercise as they run around, we decide to ruin kids’ minds with game systems that glue them to the screen for hours, and make them ignore their homework and chores. We have polluted this earth by making these things which do not even help in any way!

We have already messed up this world, we have ruined the air, water, and animals that it has so willingly provided for us. We need to stop this destruction of life and bring back the world we had before. It will not be easy, but everybody can help! What about something as simple as turning the lights off when you leave a room? Recycling what can be recycled? Picking up litter? Donating money to an environmental organization? None of these things are very hard. We can’t just always say, “Oh, the earth is a mess. Ah, well, those big companies that are polluting so much can stop and fix it.” Instead, we need to help out. It’s not only those big companies; it’s everyday things that we do too that are ruining the earth. So stop and think about what you can do to make a difference to our world!

1.Why does the author mention televisions and game systems in Paragraph 1?

To make people better aware of the urgency to the protection of the earth.

B. To explore the great harm done to the earth by too much technology waste.

C. To show the relationship between overuse of those things with early death.

D. To remind people to spend less on them and use the saved money in a wiser way.

2.It can be inferred from the second paragraph that the author .

thinks we must take care of our irreplaceable home-----the earth

B. thinks running around in fields occupies too much of kids’ time

C. takes an extremely negative attitude to things like game systems

D. takes it for granted that technology gives kids plenty of entertainment

3.We can clearly feel that the author wrote this passage with deep_____

A. anger B. emotion C. sadness D. Regret

4.What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To criticize those big companies that ruin the earth

B. To ask people to save kids from the harm done by pollution.

C. To give kids plenty of entertainment in a clean environment

D. To call on people to stop ruining the earth

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项。

iPads vs. Textbooks

What if you could have your whole backpack at the touch of your fingertips? In the first month of the Apple iPads release, 25million were sold! People all over the world use iPads for all sorts of different things, but one of their finest qualities is the ability to be a textbook. __1.____

To begin with, iPad are less expensive. Textbooks become outdated and schools have to buy new books, but with an iPad schools can update them for free. _2.___ Schools don’t have to spend $500 every year for iPads because they last a while and can be updated.

__3.__ Students usually have multiple classes, which results in multiple textbooks. Heavy backpacks filled with books can cause back problem. A solution to that is an iPad, which only weighs 1.33 pounds and can hold all of a student’s textbooks.

Third, schools should get rid of their textbooks and get iPads because they have more capabilities. Some might think all of the apps are distracting, but the apps actually make iPads more efficient. __4.___ Textbooks cannot do those tasks, but iPads can easily do them with just a tap of the fingertip.

Lastly, iPads are a better choice for schools instead of textbooks because these devices allow students to access their learning anywhere at any time. __5._____ With iPads, they find it easier to get their homework done.

In conclusion, schools should get rid of their clumsy textbooks and switch to iPads. iPads have allowed this generation to have their entire backpack in the palm of their hands.

These tablets are perfect for busy students.

B. Second, iPads cost less and are more popular.

C. Therefore, they can use the saved money for other programs.

D. iPads have already replaced textbooks in over 600 American counties.

E. Moreover, in high school, textbooks have an average of 4.8 pounds each.

F. Schools have every reason to do away with their school books and switch to iPads.

G. iPads absorb the need to buy calculators, dictionaries, and other items that are found within the device.

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Uncle Bruce has been my most influential role model. I admire him because he has 41 me into the person I am today by teaching me about respect and responsibility and that anything having takes a lot of hard work.

The most important thing he has me is how to think. He always says, “You can learn something from everyone, it’s what not to do.” He always does what he . If he says, “I’ll pick you up at seven on Thursday,” it will . Also, Bruce is the kind of person who actually you.

Uncle Bruce was in the army for 20 years and went through some terrible , but he hasn’t let them affect him . After hearing his stories about alcohol- and drug-related , I have no interest in doing anything that could 51 me or my friends. He is also the only person who truly believes I can it to West Point. He has done everything within his to help me achieve that goal.

Uncle Bruce is my hero he is that I want to be when I’m his age. He is smart, financially , and gives back to his community. There is no way I can him for all he’s done. He is the one whose can change the way I look at something. I’ve never told him that I love him, has he told me, but we love each other and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m not he’s perfect, but I can’t imagine .without him how that he is here.

1.A. shaped B. promoted C. trained D. blessed

2.A. like B. about C. from D. worth

3.A. directed B. taught C. encouraged D. improved

4.A. so that B. even if C. as if D. now that

5.A. wants B. supports C. promises D. advises

6.A. matter B. insist C. succeed D. happen

7.A. sticks to B. points at C. listens to D. comes at

8.A. experiences B. diseases C. drills D. adaptations

9.A. materially B. negatively C. barely D. positively

10.A. tendencies B. statistics C. references D. misfortunes

11.A. sink B. test C. harm D. exploit

12.A. make B. take C. bring D. seize

13.A. management B. access C. patent D. power

14.A. everybody B. everything C. nobody D. nothing

15.A. secure B. shaky C. proper D. messy

16.A. praise B. repay C. present D. recharge

17.A. strength B. honesty C. opinion D. standard

18.A. or B. either C. nor D. so

19.A. saying B. proving C. expressing D. demanding

20.A. travelling B. studying C. working D. living

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What should you do if you are not able to sleep? The best thing is to try to avoid bad habits.1.you always go to bad and get up at about the same time, this sets a2.(health) rhythm in your life. Don't drink caffeine drinks in the evening. Smoking and alcohol can also keep you awake. You may have trouble3. (sleep) if you have a heavy meal just before you go to bed.

You may also find it difficult4.(get) to sleep if you have a problem or something else on your mind. This is 5.you need to relax. As you lie in bed, tense the muscles in your feet and then relax6. . Continue up the body, tensing and relaxing the muscles until you reach the head. Start with the feet again if you are still tense. If you7. (think) about a problem or about something exciting that is going to happen the next day, get up and write about it. That will help to take it off your mind. You can also get up and read, but be sure to choose8. book that is not too difficult9. , you may get so interested that you won’t want to go to sleep even when you feel sleepy.

Sleep well! Sweet 10.(dream)!