2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does the man think helps him the most to become successful?

A．Hard work.

B．Good training.

C．A set schedule.

2. When does the man have breakfast on the game day?

A．At about 8:30.

B．At about 9:20.

C．At about 9:50.

3. What does the man do at twelve o’clock on the game day?

A．Have lunch.

B．Attend a team meeting.

C．Do warm-up exercises.

4. Why do the man’s team watch tapes of past games?

A．To make themselves relax.

B．To notice the mistakes they’ve made.

C．To know the kinds of tips the other team use.

3 . 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

7 December is International Civil Aviation Day. Of course, we immediately think of the Wright brothers, the great pioneers who invented and put the first airplane into the sky.

The more you study the efforts the brothers made, the more you admire them. These were men who had a dream—to do what only the birds had been able to do. For thousands of years it had only been a dream and a mad one, too. It’s mad because it seemed against nature and mad also because of the dangers involved. But the Wrights flew up to 100 times a year. It was the process of trial and error that led to them producing a machine that could actually carry people through the air safely.

They were brave men. They showed courage, without which human beings would never have made any progress. A Wright brothers expert, David McCullough, gave an example of their courage. He noted that the brothers never flew together. Why? “If one got killed, the other would still be alive to carry on with the mission (使命)，” he wrote in his book The Wright Brothers.

Determination was all that they had in the beginning. They weren’t from fancy, rich backgrounds. No business or university sponsored (资助) their efforts. They had to do everything themselves. They put their lives on the line every time they climbed into the pilot’s seat.

The philosopher Aristotle had something to say about courage. He said that it is “the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees (保证) all the others”. Surely the story of the Wright brothers backs up these words. Courage is also part of the American belief that anything is possible if you put your whole heart and soul into it. The Wright brothers certainly had a can­do attitude, and they taught us one great lesson: We need ambition and courage if we want to see our plans through to the end.

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5 . 【课文原文】

We Regret to Inform You...

“We regret to inform you...” These are the words that every writer dreads receiving, but words every writer knows well. The response from a publisher comes back and the writer eagerly opens and reads it, their hearts sinking when they reach that final sentence. You may have spent years giving up your weekends and free time to write your life’s work, yet still this is often not enough. Everyone knows that success rarely happens overnight, but perhaps not many know that a lot of highly successful writers have previously faced rejection.

Take for example J. K. Rowling. When she received her first rejection letter, she decided that it meant she now had something in common with her favourite writers, and stuck it on her kitchen wall. Rowling had spent years surviving on little money, spending all her time writing. When she finally finished her first book, she received comments from publishers along the lines of “too difficult for children”, “too long”, “Children would not be interested in it”．Nevertheless, she persevered. “I wasn’t going to give up until every single publisher turned me down, but I often feared that would happen,” she later posted. After a total of twelve rejections, one publisher eventually agreed to print 500 copies of her first book, and as we know, Harry Potter became a global success, with over 400 million books sold and translated into more than seventy different languages.

All too often writers of great works have had to face criticism along with rejection. J. D. Salinger started writing short stories in high school, but later struggled to get his works published. “We feel that we don't know the central character well enough” was the criticism he received on his manuscript for The Catcher in the Rye. Despite rejections from several publishers, J. D. Salinger refused to give up. Even when serving in the US Army during the Second World War, he carried six chapters of The Catcher in the Rye with him and worked on the novel throughout his war service. When it was eventually published, the book became an immediate best­seller and went on to sell millions and millions of copies.

Perhaps the overall prize for perseverance should go to three sisters from Victorian England who dreamt of seeing their words in print. This, however, was a time when women were not encouraged to become writers. As the then Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, wrote to one of them：“Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life, and it ought not to be.” Nevertheless, the sisters didn’t stop trying. Their response was to write a book of poems under male names. Even when the book sold only two copies, the sisters still didn’t give up. They started writing novels, and today Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey are regarded as classics of world literature. In fact, it is within the pages of Jane Eyre that we can find these words：“I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends...”

So, it seems that talent alone isn’t enough to guarantee success. While a lot of hard work and a touch of luck play a part, perseverance is the key. Keep trying and eventually you will read the words “We are delighted to inform you...”

1. What’s mainly talked about in the passage?

A．Many famous writers have many regrets.	B．Success depends on talent.
C．Perseverance is the key to success.	D．Many famous writers have been treated unfairly.

2. What’s the author’s intention by writing the last sentence in the first paragraph?

A．To advise us to be patient.	B．To show the writer’s attitude towards success.
C．To introduce the following content.	D．To show the key to success.

3. What can we conclude about J. K. Rowling from the second paragraph?

A．She knew many famous writers had previously faced rejections.

B．She got frustrated by the first rejection letter and gave up.

C．Her first book of Harry Potter was published at her first attempt.

D．She revised her first book following the advice of publishers.

4. What is special about J. D. Salinger from other writers mentioned in this text?

A．He had faced many rejections before his novel was published.

B．He once wanted to give up trying but later changed his mind.

C．He worked on his novel when serving in the army.

D．His novel was not popular when it was first published.

5. Which of the following can best describe the three Brontё sisters?

A．Intelligent and considerate.	B．Talented and strong­minded.
C．Gentle and generous.	D．Wise and ambitious.

6. 细读课文并找出人物描写的句子
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7. 细读课文并找出心理描写的句子
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6 . 语法填空

Tu Youyou was awarded with Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2015, because she has discovered artemisinin, which     1     (use) as a crucial new treatment for malaria to save millions of people.

Born in Ningbo, China, she graduated     2     Peking University Medical School in 1955. She was among the first researchers     3     (choose) for the objective of discovering a new treatment for malaria. At first, she went to Hainan because there were more malaria     4     (patient). When she headed the project in 1969, she decided to find traditional     5     (botany) treatments for the disease, so her team examined over 2, 000 old medical texts and evaluated 280, 000 plants, from    6     they tested 380 distinct ancient Chinese medical treatments.

Though Tu’s team tested dried wormwood leaves and tried the liquid obtained by     7     (boil) fresh wormwood, they failed in vain. However, Tu didn’t acknowledge defeat and analysed the medical texts again, finding a new way     8     (treat) the wormwood. After failing over 190 times, the team     9     (final) succeeded in 1971. This medicine, which was called artemisinin, soon became a standard treatment for malaria.

Tu owed the honor to the efforts of a team and she felt it     10     honor to spread traditional Chinese medicine around the world.

7 . Fill in each of the blanks with a proper word to complete the summary of the text.

Both Lang Ping and Michael Jordan are living legends of sports as they not only are     1    in their sport but also set good     2    by helping others.

Lang Ping is loved by fans at home and    3    . She is successful both as a player and as a coach of volleyball. The     4     she showed as a coach was impressive. In the 2015 World Cup, two important players had to leave because of health problems, but Lang Ping was not     5    . She encouraged her young players to work closely together as a team, which helped them become world     6    ! Then in 2016, Lang Ping led her volleyball team to Olympic gold in Brazil.

Michael Jordan,     7    as “Air Jordan”, changed basketball with his graceful moves and jumps.     8     made him unique was not only because of his skills but also because of his mental strength. He refused to give up in time of failures and kept on learning from     9    , which was the secret to his success. In life, Jordan has learnt to     10     his success with others by starting a club to help young people.

8 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. honors               B. elected          C. unique        D. incurable       E. chair F. progressively       G. proposed       H. primarily       I. exploding       J. occupying       K. detailed

Stephen Hawking, born on January 8, 1942, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, died on March 14, 2018, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, an English theoretical physicist whose theory of     1     black holes drew upon both relativity theory and quantum mechanics. He also worked with space-time singularities.

Hawking studied physics at Oxford (B.A., 1962), and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (Ph.D., 1966). He was     2     a research fellow at Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge. In the early 1960s, Hawking contracted amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an     3     degenerative neuromuscular disease. He continued to work despite the disease’s     4     disabling effects.

Hawking worked     5     in the field of general relativity and particularly on the physics of black holes. In 1971, he suggested the formation, following the big bang, of numerous objects containing as much as one billion tons of mass but     6     only the space of a proton. These objects, called mini black holes, are     7     in that their immense mass and gravity require that they be ruled by the laws of relativity, while their minute size requires that the laws of quantum mechanics apply to them, too. In 1974, Hawking     8     that, in accordance with the predictions of quantum theory, black holes emit subatomic particles until they exhaust their energy and finally explode.

Hawking’s contributions to physics earned him many exceptional     9    . In 1974, the Royal Society elected him one of its youngest fellows. He became professor of gravitational physics at Cambridge in 1977, and in 1979, he was appointed to Cambridge’s Lucasian professorship of mathematics, a post once held by Isaac Newton. Hawking was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and a Companion of Honor in 1989. He also received the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 2006 and the US. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. In 2008, he accepted a visiting research     10     at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

9 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. diagnosed       B. applications       C. widespread       D. struggle E. cured             F. objectives          G. relatively        H. published I. occurred          J. accomplished     K. awarded

John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner and mathematical genius whose     1     with mental illness was documented in the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, was killed in a car accident on Saturday. He was 86. The accident     2     when the taxi Nash was traveling in ran into another car on the New Jersey Turnpike. Neither of the two drivers involved in the accident underwent life-threatening injuries.

At Princeton, Nash published a 27-page essay about the field of game theory, which led to     3     in economics, international politics, and evolutionary biology. His signature solution found that competition among two opponents is not necessarily governed by zero-sum logic. Two opponents can, for instance, each achieve their maximum     4     through cooperating with the other, or gain nothing at all by refusing to cooperate. This simple understanding is now regarded as one of the most important and     5     social science ideas in the 20th century, and a proof to his almost unique intellectual gifts.

But in the late 1950s, Nash was     6     with mental illness and each therapy failed to cure him, and for much of the next three decades, Nash wandered freely on the Princeton campus, scratching his hands on empty blackboards and staring blankly ahead in the library. Robert Wright remembers Nash as “some maths genius that went crazy” who wore colorful shoes and quietly watched people. His mental illness removed him completely from his work. By the time Nash was     7     the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994, he hadn’t     8     a paper in 36 years.

But like a child    9     of a terrible dream by the switch of a light, Nash recovered from his illness seemingly by choosing not to be sick anymore. Five years later, the release of the film A Beautiful Mind, based on Sylvia Nasar’s 1998 book of the same name, expanded Nash’s extraordinary life story to an international audience. He continued to work, travel, and speak at conferences for the rest of his life.

It’s tempting to wonder what Nash might have     10     had mental illness not robbed him of so many productive years. “Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did,” said Nash. “So I took them seriously.”

10 . Pablo Ruiz Picasso’s family moved to Barcelona in the autumn of 1895, and Pablo entered the local art academy, where his father had assumed his last post as professor of drawing. The family hoped that their son would achieve success as an academic _____ , and in 1897 his eventual _____ in Spain seemed assured; in that year his painting Science and Charity, for which his father modelled for the doctor, was _____ an honourable mention in Madrid at the Fine Arts Exhibition.

The Spanish capital was the _____ next stop for the young artist intent on gaining recognition and _____ family expectations. Pablo duly set off for Madrid in the autumn of 1897 and entered the Royal Academy of San Fernando. But finding the teaching there _____ , he increasingly spent his time recording life around him, in the cafes, on the streets, and in the Prado, where he discovered Spanish painting. Works by those and other _____ would capture Picasso’s imagination at different times during his long career.

Picasso fell _____ in the spring of 1898 and spent most of the _____ year convalescing(逐步康复) in the Catalan village of Horta de Ebro in the company of his Barcelona friend Manuel Pallares. When Picasso ______ Barcelona in early 1899, he was a changed man: he had put on weight; he had learned to live on his own in the open countryside; he spoke ______ ; and, most importantly, he had made the decision to break with his art-school training and to reject his family’s plans for his future. He even began to show a ______ preference for his mother’s surname, and more often than not he signed his works P. R. Picasso; by late 1901 he had dropped the Ruiz altogether.

In Barcelona Picasso moved among a circle of Catalan artists and writers whose eyes were turned ______ Paris. Those were his friends at the café Els Quatre Gats (“The Four Cats”, styled after the Chat Noir (“Black Cat”) in Paris), where Picasso had his first Barcelona exhibition in February 1900, and they were the ______ of more than 50 portraits in the show. In addition, there was a dark, moody “modernista” painting, Last Moments (later painted over), showing the visit of a ______ to the bedside of a dying woman, a work that was accepted for the Spanish section of the Exposition Universelle in Paris in that year. Eager to see his own work in place and to experience Paris firsthand, Picasso set off in the company of his studio mate Carles Casagemas (Portrait of Carles Casagemas, 1899) to conquer, if not Paris, at least a corner of Montmartre.

1.

A．painter

B．writer

C．professor

D．critic

2.

A．works

B．success

C．power

D．fame

3.

A．offered

B．sold

C．awarded

D．presented

4.

A．necessary

B．obvious

C．favourite

D．interesting

5.

A．achieving

B．obeying

C．seeking

D．fulfilling

6.

A．academic

B．stupid

C．indifferent

D．satisfying

7.

A．travellers

B．teachers

C．artists

D．archaeologists

8.

A．ill

B．upset

C．down

D．asleep

9.

A．permitting

B．recovering

C．remaining

D．struggling

10.

A．moved to

B．settled in

C．lived in

D．returned to

11.

A．Barcelona

B．Catalan

C．French

D．British

12.

A．welcomed

B．planned

C．decided

D．covered

13.

A．on

B．over

C．up

D．toward

14.

A．subjects

B．characters

C．spectators

D．painting

15.

A．doctor

B．priest

C．policyholder

D．policeman