Nanjing-style paper cutting is an important part of Chinese paper cutting. It is known for its different designs, simplistic but graceful shapes, finely cut lines and unique skills. Zhang Fanglin is a leading figure in the Nanjing-style paper cutting. Zhang was born in a paper-cutting family. He is the fourth generation to continue the family’s paper-cutting skills. Taught by his father, he began to learn paper cutting in his childhood. In 1963 when he was only 14 years old, he started his artistic career in a local folk handicraft factory. Over the past decades, Zhang has created many works and developed excellent skills. In 1985, Zhang was admitted into Nanjing Municipal Fine Arts Company, creating and designing paper cuts. Throughout his artistic career, Zhang has absorbed characteristics and elements（元素）of various styles of paper cutting and created a large number of creative paper-cutting works. Thanks to his great contributions, he won many national prizes and was awarded the title of “National Master Artist in Handicraft Art”.

As a leading figure, Zhang Fanglin has been invited to more than 30 countries and regions around the world, showcasing his paper-cutting skills. In the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, Zhang showcased his new creations of gold foil-embedded paper cutting works.

1.What is the passage mainly about?

A．Chinese paper cutting.

B．Nanjing-style paper cutting.

C．A paper cutting family.

D．A paper cutting artist.

2.How old was Zhang Fanglin when he was admitted into Nanjing Municipal Fine Arts Company?

A．36.              B．14.               C．22.              D．18.

3.What can we infer from the passage?

A．Nanjing-style paper cutting is the most important part of Chinese paper cutting.

B．Zhang is a creative artist who knows different styles of paper cutting well.

C．Zhang won many international prizes because of his great contributions.

D．All the members of the family taught Zhang how to design paper cuts.

Most tourist destinations around China are witnessing travel peaks during the eight-day Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays that run through Sunday. In Beijing, the Palace Museum, or the Forbidden City, attracted 182, 000 tourists on Tuesday, the biggest number on a single day, as millions of visitors arrived in the national capital. “We saw absolutely nothing but people’s heads,’’ said Guo Zhijun, 42, of Henan province. “We wanted our 11-year-old son to learn something from the trip, but we only ended up very tired. ”

Earlier, from Sunday noon to midday Monday, garbage collected at Tian’anmen Square in the heart of the city amounted to 7.9 tons, a quarter more than that in the same period of last year.

In the eastern coastal city of Qingdao, its top five major tourist sites attracted more than 200, 000 visitors on Tuesday.

Yesterday, thousands of cars jammed two 20-kilometer mountain roads winding to and out of the Lushan Mountain scenic area in the eastern province of Jiangxi. The area, with about 3, 000 car parking spaces, was unable to contain at least 8, 000 inbound cars, said head of the Lushan Mountain public security bureau.

The Lushan Mountain tourism administration temporarily stopped selling entrance tickets to prevent the traffic from growing on Tuesday afternoon. Similar measures could be taken during the rest of the holidays, a police officer said.

Emergency measures have been taken at other scenic sites. Crowded visitors overwhelmed the capacity（承载量）of the cable cars at Huashan Mountain, in Shaanxi province, leaving tens of thousands stuck at the peak late into Tuesday night. According to China Central Television, restless visitors demanded refunds from the tourism committee, and a lot of visitors had to give up and walk down the mountain.

Chen Li, deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Public Security Department, said on his micro blog that more than 300 policemen and government officials climbed up the mountain to help trapped visitors. Fearing that tourist sites might become too crowded, many people are staying at home, going shopping or making short suburban trips. A resident Mr. Wang in Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi, canceled long-distance travel plans after learning of heavy traffic on many highways during the first two days of the holidays. Instead, Wang, his wife and son went fishing in the suburbs before having a picnic.

1.What happened in the Forbidden City that Tuesday?

A．There were far more visitors coming than expected.

B．A large number of zones were opened to the visitors.

C．Over 7.9 tons of garbage was collected.

D．More than 200, 000 visitors gathered there.

2.What does the underlined word “overwhelmed” mean in paragraph 6?

A．showed up        B．added to          C．reached beyond    D．filled in

3.The writer wrote this article to________________.

A．advise traveling to different places to learn something

B．warn people not to climb those mountains on holidays

C．encourage people to change the travel plans according to the traffic

D．suggest we stay at home or go shopping during those holidays

4.Which of the following might be the best title?

A．Experiences from Different Travel Plans

B．Travel Peaks in China's Tourist Sites

C．Floods of People to the Forbidden City

D．Problems with Travelling on Holiday

阅读下面的短文和问题，根据短文内容，完成对该问题的回答。答语要书写工整，字迹清楚，结构正确，不多于八个单词。

It is essential to our children’s development that they are provided with life skills. It is of great importance that our children should be taught basic life skill lessons in order to live the life they dream of as they enter adulthood.

How we teach youth life skills is the focus of this article. We will explore and share life skill lessons with you so that the time you spend with each child is more productive and moves them to take positive action.

What should be included in a youth life skills program?

1）Financial literacy（理财素养）. Financial literacy training can improve every aspect of a child’s life. Studies show that people that have developed financial literacy skills are healthier, have better relationships, and have more confidence. Financial literacy training is the foundation which all the other youth life skills can build on and support.

2）Relationships. Children need to understand the importance of encouraging relationships and develop the skills to maintain positive relationships. One key part of developing positive relationships is the ability to communicate effectively. This is a life skill that will not only benefit （使受益）their friendships but will help them in their careers as well.

3）Strengths development. It is important for adults to focus on the strengths of their children and help them to take their strengths to the next level. For most, what we are good at is also what we enjoy doing. Make your youth life skill program one that helps them follow their passions and build upon the strengths they have developed while growing up.

The focus of youth skills programs is recognizing students’ potential and providing them with the proper tools to enable them to develop their skill sets. You are helping to open up windows of opportunity for them and encouraging them throughout the process by making them feel worthy.

The goal of youth life skill programs is to help our children grow into responsible adults. Children cannot grow into the wonderful human beings they are meant to be when they are shut down, turned away and ignored. They need the proper guidance that will enable them to feel proud of their achievements. They also need the opportunity to express themselves in an environment that is willing to listen to them and to help them as well. There is only so much they can stand on their own; the rest is up to the adults that play important roles in their lives.

1.What is important for children to learn according to the article?

______________________________________________________________

2.Who do you think the article is written to, students or teachers?

______________________________________________________________

3.What can children benefit from financial literacy skills?

______________________________________________________________

4.How can we encourage children to keep learning the life skill course?

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5.What do children need so that they can learn to stand on their own?

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假设你是某中学高一年级学生赵明，昨天你和同学们一起听了一场讲座。请根据下面表中信息，完成一篇短文，并向校刊投稿。

注：1. 讲座内容至少涉及两点。

2. 词数80－100。

3. 开头已给出。

My classmates and I attended a special lecture yesterday.                             

请用方框中词语的适当形式完成下列句子，每词只用一次。

1.The retired teacher was very happy to receive a（n）________to the wedding ceremony of his student.

2.Nowadays people pay more attention to the________ festivals, which helps promote Chinese culture.

3.It’s everyone’s duty to make a（n）________to protecting the environment.

4.________, I don’t think it a good way to learn English only by remembering words.

5.Many houses were ________in the earthquake in Yunnan Province.

6.Most of the people who attended the speech were ________with it and left the room earlier.

7.In order to ________my son’s education abroad, I have to take a part-time job on weekends.

8.We’ve known different kinds of________, such as history makers, sports stars and some astronauts.

请根据括号中所给词或短语提示翻译下列句子。

1.当她听说儿子取得了很大进步，她兴奋不已。（be filled with）

____________________________________________________

2.我觉得听音乐非常令人放松。（find it +adj.）

____________________________________________________

3.即使有很多挑战，我们也会继续太空探索。（even if）

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4.让孩子们学会独立生活是非常重要的。（on one’s own）

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5.我们高兴地得知汤姆的父亲手术后康复。（pull through）

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6.Bush年轻时积极参加社会活动。（take part in）

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7.老师祝贺我们在运动会上表现出色。（congratulate on）

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8.据说这家餐馆供应的饭菜不错。（serve）

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阅读下面短文，从各题A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。

People who smoke could lose around one third of their daily memory, researchers say.

A study by a team at Northumbria University showed that smokers lost more of their memory when compared to non-smokers.

And the research also found that those who kicked the habit saw their ability to recollect information restored to almost the same level as non-smokers.

The study involved more than seventy 18-to-25-year-olds and included a tour of the university’s campus. Those who took part were asked to recall small details, such as a list of songs played at a campus concert and tasks completed at various points－known as real world memory test. Smokers performed badly, remembering just 59 percent of tasks. But those who had given up smoking remembered 74 percent and those who had never smoked recalled 81 percent of tasks.

Dr. Tom Heffernan, who leads Northumbria University’s Collaboration for Drug and Alcohol Research Group, said the findings would be useful in anti-smoking campaigns. He said, “Given that there are up to 10 million smokers in the UK and as many as 45 million in the United States, it's important to understand the effects smoking has on everyday cognitive（认知的）function-of which prospective memory is an excellent example. ”

“This is the first time that a study has set out to examine whether giving up smoking has an impact on memory. We already know that giving up smoking has huge health benefits for the body, but this study also shows how stopping smoking can have knock-on benefits for cognitive functions too. ’’

The research will now investigate the effects of passive smoking on memory, while Dr. Heffernan and Dr. Terence O’Neil will look into the effects of third-hand smoking－toxins left on curtains and furniture.

1.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Smoking does harm to health.

B．Smokers take a tour to the University’s campus.

C．Smoking can affect one’s memory.

D．Smokers are compared to non-smokers.

2.How did those who took part in the study perform when asked to recall small details?

A．Smokers did the worst among the participants.

B．Non-smokers could recall about half of them.

C．Smokers could recall nothing at all.

D．Those who gave up smoking did best.

3.According to Dr. Tom Heffernan, the findings_______.

A．would be really a surprise to the public

B．would contribute to fighting against smoking

C．would be used in real world memory test

D．would be nothing new to the researchers

4.What does the underlined word “impact’’ most probably mean?

A．order            B．impression         C．expression         D．effect

5.What will Dr. Heffernan and Dr Terence O’Neil do?

A．Investigate the effects of third-hand smoking.

B．Do research on how smoking affects passive smokers.

C．Find ways to persuade people to quit smoking.

D．Study whether giving up smoking affects memory.

-- I hear Jane has gone to the Holy Island for her holiday ?

--- Oh, how nice ! Do you know when she __________ ?

A．was leaving        B．had left           C．has left           D．left

I first met Lisa three years ago. She _______at a clothes shop at the time.

A．has worked        B．was working        C．had been working   D．had worked

You shouldn’t accept a gift from a person _____ you don’t know him.

A．until             B．unless            C．if                D．whether