Have you ever had the following experience? You have been given the task of organizing a conference, which includes a must-do list about a mile long. There is the conference site, the guest list, the materials, the technology and even the food and drink to think about and plan. If you are beginning to feel the stress, slow down and take a breath. 【1】.

Write down your goals. You will need to clearly define what you hope to accomplish with this conference because this will shape the rest of your decisions. 【2】.

Develop your budget. 【3】. Then break that budget into different parts such as conference site, materials and speakers’ fees. Stick to your budget, and make sure your assistants are keeping their monetary limits as well.

【4】. When searching for locations, keep in mind the number of participants, the convenience of the location, parking and closeness to public transportation, airports and hotels. Your goal in finding a place to hold the conference should be making it as easy as possible for participants to attend.

Seek help from the staff of the conference site. If you have chosen a site that is known for holding conferences, you can seek help from the staff there as organizing meeting is what they do every day. 【5】. They should be able to answer any questions or concern and provide advice when needed.

Of course, full preparations also include a walk-through. Go to the site and meet with the staff the day before to be certain that everything is in place and to take care of any small details.

A. Decide on a schedule for the meeting

B. Choose your conference site

C. Read the following skills to figure out how to organize a conference

D. Knowing what you want to achieve eases the stress of moving forward

E. Make full use of this important resource

F. You can do nothing without knowing how much money you have to spend

G. Seek help from your colleagues to support every aspect of the meeting

【题目】— Why do you look sad?
— There are so many problems _____.
A.remaining to settle
B.remained settling
C.remaining to be settled
D.remained to be settled

That's the idea behind peer-to-peer (P2P) renting, a new model concluded by sites such as eBay and Craigslist. Instead of selling an idle (闲置) thing, you loan it to people in your town, get paid a small rental fee and gel it back when the borrower's done with it. In the past few years, almost a dozen websites have popped up promising to connect lenders and borrowers. For example, you can use GetAround to rent out your car or motorcycle, SnapGoods to rent out electronics and gadgets, ToolSpinner to rent electric drills and lawnmowers, Zaarly and Knb to rent out a little bit of everything else.

Old as it may sound, P2P renting is more high-tech than before, with websites that avoid cash for credit cards. A user creates an online listing for the item she wants to rent out, choosing her own rental fee. When someone wants the item, he keeps it on an online calendar, and the two arrange a time and place for pickup. Each site operates a little differently, but all use technology to make renting easy, safe and relatively inexpensive.

Why rent your idle things? You may not make a ton of money, but it is a good way to get some use out of idle things. The people who rent those goods are able to save thousands of dollars by renting instead of buying new.

There may be other benefits. "It brings convenience, security and adventure," says Ali Hart, JustSharclt's spokesperson. “But, more importantly, we're really connecting people and building community, too."

Get to know your neighbors and make a few dollars in the process? Sounds like a good deal.

【1】What can GetAround, SnapGoods, ToolSpinner, Zaarly and Krrb possibly be?

A. the companies selling idle things

B. the websites for P2P renting

C. the special people good at P2P renting

D. the courses to teach people to do P2P renting

【2】What does the third paragraph mainly talk about?

A. How credit cards are used in P2P renting.

B. Why P2P renting should be encouraged.

C. How P2P renting works online.

D. Where the lenders and borrowers meet.

【3】According to Ali Hart, what’s the greatest benefit of P2P renting?

A. Making a considerable sum of money.

B. Saving money and protecting the environment. .

C. Making the Internet convenient and safe.

D. Keeping people in the community connected.

【4】What might be the purpose of the passage?

A. To encourage people to do P2P renting online.

B. To teach people how to rent idle things.

C. To explain why the Internet changes our life.

D. To guide people to be fashion consumers.

【题目】写作：请以“Why Should We Learn English？”为题根据以下提示写一篇100字左右的短文，说明学习英语的重要性。
提示：①英语已成为一门国际语言。懂得英语，你便可与外国人交流，你还可以周游世界而且不被误解；
②许多书籍、报纸、杂志都是用英语写的。借助英语可以更直接地获取知识；
③如果你在外资企业(foreign company)或国外生活的话，英语不仅仅是你的交流工具，还是你的谋生方式；
④学习英语有时也是一件趣事。
参考词汇：国际的 international　误解 misunderstand　工具 tool

【题目】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。 Imagine looking f or your lost dog. You step into a cave. But instead of the dog, you find beautiful cave paintings. You see paintings of horses, deer, and bison drawn in black, brown, red and yellow. Your first question would probably be“Who did this? ”
This is what happened to four French boys in 1940. They found the Lascaux caves. The paintings the boys discovered in those caves are about 17, 000 years old. They were drawn by the ancient people called Cro-Magnon(克鲁马努人).
Cro-Magnons looked much like people of today. They used tools, such as fishing nets. But their art was extremely good. The main cave at Lascaux is called Great Hall of Bulls, which has a picture of bulls and horses in many colours. The largest animal is 18 feet long. There are smaller animals, such as bison, stags and a bear. There is also a strange spotted two-horned(两只角的)animal.
To the left of the main cave are the most famous paintings that are the drawings of animals in many different colours. One painting is called Little Horses. On the ceiling are horses and cows. The most unusual sight may be in the Shaft of the Dead Man where there is a rhinoceros, a carefully drawn dead man, an injured bison and a bird.
Why did Cro-Magnon artists do these beautiful drawings on cave walls? Did the drawings call upon some magic power? Did the Cro-Magnon people hope that the drawings would bring good luck? There is one thing the paintings seem to tell us. The Cro-Magnons were interested in the world. They looked at beauty and they understood it.
（1）The author uses the word“you”in Paragraph 1 to_________.
A.attract readers’ attention
B.make it clear that this is a true story
C.give readers good directions to find the caves
D.compare modern people wit h Cro-Magnon people
（2）Most of the drawings in the caves are about_________.
A.boys
B.tools
C.humans
D.animals
（3）What does the passage mainly tell us?
A.Cave paintings are beautiful.
B.Who found the beautiful cave paintings.
C.The Lascaux caves hold colourful ancient paintings.
D.Drawings of horses are on the walls of the Lascaux cav es.
（4）The passage is most probably taken from_________.
A.a research paper
B.a cultural magazine
C.a science newspaper
D.a travel guide

Hard data still being collected, but experts in Chicago said about 30% to 50% of the food produced in the world goes uneaten. The average American throws away 33 pounds of food each month—about $40 worth, which means each person throws away almost 400 pounds of food. The US Department of Agriculture says that 23% of eggs and an even higher percentage of produce ends up in the trash.

“We forget we have all these fresh fruits and vegetables, and at the end of the week we have to throw them away”, said Esther Gove, a mother of three young children in South Berwick, Maine. “Now, I don’t buy as much fresh produce as I used to.”

But the effect of food waste arrives far beyond the kitchen. Agriculture is the world’s largest user of water, a big consumer of energy and major emitter of greenhouse gases during production. Experts say reducing waste is a simple way to cut stress on the environment and can ease pressure on farmers, who will be called on to feed an expected 9 billion people around the world in 2050, compared with nearly 7 billion today.

No matter how sustainable (可持续的) farming is, if the food’s not getting eaten, it’s not sustainable and it’s not a good use of our resources. In richer nations, fruit and vegetables end up in the trash because they aren’t pretty enough to meet companies’ standards, have gone bad in a home refrigerator or aren’t eaten at a restaurant. In developing countries, much food spoils before it gets to market due to poor roads and lack of refrigeration. High food prices are another reason, since some people can’t afford the food that’s produced.

【1】From the first paragraph, we know that cleaning your plate ________.

A. is you mother’s best advice for you

B. can solve certain problems for the world

C. can help feed hungry children all over the world

D. helps meet the growing population’s needs

【2】The underlined word “emitter” in Paragraph 4 means ________.

A. user B. finder C. protector D. producer

【3】What is a sustainable and convenient way for a customer in a restaurant?

A. Ordering enough and packing the leftovers.

B. Ordering more than he or she can eat.

C. Ordering less and feeling hungry after leaving.

D. Ordering more and leaving the untouched alone.

【4】Which of the following topics will follow the text?

A. More examples of food waste. B. Ways to reduce food waste.

C. Experts’ idea on the environment. D. Advice for food with high prices.

增加：在缺词处加一个漏子符号（∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

刪除：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。

【1】A number of volunteers is willing to help the old during their free time.

【2】Now when people refer to England you find Wales including as well.

【3】Wearing a dress is in the place for a wedding ceremony.

【4】He became inspiring when he thought about helping ordinary people.

【5】The poor boy had no other choice but cry in the street.

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

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1处起）不计分。

Dear Paul,

I really can’t thank you very much for your invitation.

I do want to accept them and take this opportunity to introduce traditional Chinese paintings to foreign friends, but I’m sorry to inform you that I can’t. The reason is because I am busy preparing myself for the coming College Entrance Examination. As for the introduction speech, I strongly recommend my friend Anna, that is the most suitable choice to take my place on next Sunday. She begun to learn paintings at an early age and has good knowledge of traditional Chinese paintings. However, her active personality and perfect spoken English will help making your activity a success.

Sorry again for any inconvenience caused by my absence and all the best wish to you.

Sincerely yours,

Li Ming

【题目】阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。
The New York Times published an article recently that shows great regret for the “death of conversation”. It 1that while technology such as cell pho nes, e-mails, and Internet posting makes us feel more2 than ever, they're also driving us away from people around us.
Users get final connectivity at the price of 3face-to-face conversation. Sherry Turkle, author of the article in The New York Times says people are 4 to a different way of being “alone together”.
Actually, 5text messages or writing micro-blogs allows us to6thoughts. But bits and pieces of online cannot7 a “real conversation.” Lan Guo, 19, a freshman English major from Changsha University, said that she would like to hear people's tone of voice and see their faces in a (n)8. “The give and take of ideas in a conversation sharpens our minds.” she said. She also mentions that burying ourselves in mobile technology reduces our chance of starting conversations with strangers and 9 people.
Turkle mentioned the popular 10of “I share, therefore I am” among this generation. Liu Xuan, a young writer from Taiwan and psychology graduate from Harvard University, thinks it's a mindset adopted by most 11 people. They are so busy creating or polishing their online persona (网络人格) that they forget how to live a (n) 12 life.
However, experts remind us that it's 13to blame mobile technology. Chen Chen, a sociology expert at China Youth & Children Research Center, 14 out that it is still owners of gadgets, who’re avoiding personal contact. “Only by strengthening conversation can we understand each other. 15 throwing away the mobile gadgets is not a solution.” she said.
（1）A.talks B.suggest C.speaks D.advises
（2）A.received B.shared C.connected D.respected
（3）A.having B.risking C.sacrificing D.sharing
（4）A.related B.committed C.devoted D.accustomed
（5）A.sending B.getting C.reading D.taking
（6）A.change B.exchange C.explain D.raise
（7）A.indicate B.replace C.cover D.involve
（8）A.conversation B.computer C.party D.Internet
（9）A.interviewing B.introducing C.knowing D.meeting
（10）A.feeling B.concept C.fact D.truth
（11）A.shy B.busy C.old D.young
（12）A.real B.interesting C.colorful D.meaningful
（13）A.important B.necessary C.unfair D.Uncomfortable
（14）A.reaches B.thinks C.points D.watches
（15）A.Eventually B.Hardly C.Finally D.Simply

【题目】写作：假定你是李华，你的英国好友玛丽考试失败，对自己失去了信心，产生了厌学情绪。请你给她发一封邮件开导她，要点如下：
①不要过于伤心；
②放松，减少焦虑心理；
③和老师交流有助于提高成绩；
④探索适合自己的有效学习方式。
注意：①词数：100左右；
②可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。