1 . In China, each year we produce about 150 million tons of city waste according to a report. Where does the waste go? People usually burn or bury(埋)it. On the other hand, we receive waste from some developed countries. We get useful materials from it. What about the useless part? Still burned or buried. But is it a proper way?
Waste pollutes the environment, harms people's health and causes animals to die. It also gets in the way of green and sustainable development. We can't make money at the cost of the environment. We should leave clean water and green mountains to our next generations(一代人).
China is getting really serious about waste now.
We are taking less waste from developed countries. From January 2018, China started to stop 24 kinds of waste coming into our country. And more laws and rules about dealing with waste have been made. Anyone who breaks the law will be punished.
China also tries to put waste into good use. One example is the waste electricity factories. They burn waste to make electricity in a green way. No harmful gases or water will get into the environment.
The Chinese government is encouraging people to do waste sorting(分类). Cities like Shanghai, Chongqing and Beijing have their own sorting systems. More will join them soon. As President Xi Jinping said during a visit to Shanghai, waste sorting is a new fashion(时尚). More and more people are forming the habit of separating their waste.
1. The writer starts the passage by _________.| A．telling stories | B．comparing numbers |
| C．raising questions | D．giving suggestions |
| A．可享受的 | B．可持续的 | C．可借鉴的 | D．可复活的 |
| A．waste does harm only to the environment |
| B．those who break the law may not be punished |
| C．China stops getting waste from developed countries |
| D．waste sorting starts to become popular in China |
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A． | B． |
C． | D． |
2 . ①Chemistry is everywhere in our daily life. Sometimes it's easy to see. At other times, it can be very hard to see the everyday chemistry at work, but nearly everything you touch has some chemicals (化学物质) in it.
②Chemistry helps to make products for use. Something as simple as toothpaste has at least three chemicals that keep your teeth clean. Other things in your daily life are created by chemistry, such as hair products and soap. Without chemistry, we would never have known that we need soap to get the oil out of clothes.
③Chemistry also helps us understand the world around us. Thanks to chemistry, we know bleach (漂白剂) can't be mixed with vinegar (醋), because the mixture can produce harmful gas.
④Chemistry plays a big role in food preparation. Cooking food causes it to go through a chemical change. That is the reason why cooked food often tastes different from uncooked food. Too much or too little of any chemical material makes a difference to the result of baking (烘焙). For example, the cake can be too soft or too hard.
⑤Chemistry isn't something that just lives in a laboratory; it's something that you meet hundreds of times in life. Knowing how chemistry works will give you a greater understanding of the life.
1. What can the chemistry in soap help us?| A．To clean the teeth. | B．To make the teeth strong. |
| C．To clean the oil off clothes. | D．To make the clothes new. |
| A．we can mix bleach with vinegar | B．the mixture can produce useful gas |
| C．we can't mix bleach with vinegar | D．chemistry can't help us make products |
| A．cooked food is much better than uncooked food |
| B．chemistry plays a big role in food preparation |
| C．there are no chemical changes while we are cooking |
| D．the cake can't be too soft or too hard with chemistry |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．Chemistry and food. | B．Chemistry around the world. |
| C．Chemistry and products. | D．Chemistry in everyday life. |
①It is now common to go online in the home, yet a recent survey showed that ninety-five percent of parents do not know what websites their children visit. I strongly believe that a training project should be started to help parents to improve their Internet and computer skills so that they can better monitor and guide their children.
②One advantage of providing training is that it would get parents to pay more attention to their children's online activities. If they had a better understanding of the Internet, they would see the need to make sure that their children use it properly and responsibly.
③Another argument for providing training to parents is that it would allow parents to help their children with their schoolwork. These days, a lot of homework needs to be done on computers. If parents have poor computer skills, they will be of little or no help with homework, which can make them upset. Some people argue that it is good that students can work independently on computers. However, it is clear that students, especially young students, often need this kind of home support.
④Improving parents' Internet and computer skills might also be a good way or parents to improve their relationships with their children. These days, children spend a lot of their free time on computers. If parents want to be part of that free time, they need to see that playing on computers can be a fun family activity. Joining their children can help parents bridge the generation gap(代沟) between them and their children.
⑤I strongly believe that children need to be helped and guided to use the Internet in a proper and responsible way, and so training is extremely important.
Yours faithfully.
Pat Chan
1. In the letter, the writer ________.| A．thinks parents should improve their Internet and computer skills |
| B．advises children not to spend a lot of their free time on computers |
| C．tries to make children less worried about their online schoolwork |
| D．explains why parents should pay more attention to their children |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
| A．culture | B．sports | C．health | D．education |
4 . Do you have true friends? Do you want to know better between you and your friends? There are three different kinds of friends: “pest friends”, “guest friends”, and “best friends”.
The first kind of friend is simply acquaintances (熟人), and all you usually know about them is their names. You may meet this kind of friend at school, at work, or on the bus, but you don’t miss them when they’re not around. When this kind of friend does something bad, you don’t tell them. That is why they are called “pest friends”.
The second kind of friend could also be called “social partners”. They are closer than acquaintances, but not as close as true friends. You know their names, a little of what they like or dislike, and a little of their family histories; you usually have a few things in common, but you don’t talk about anything deep(深), such as your wishes or fears(害怕), and they don’t open up to you how they really feel.
The last kind of friend, the “best friend”, is the one you know the deepest. You’re like family, and know everything about each other. You have no problem staying at each other’s houses, and you share your deepest feelings and thoughts. They will correct you when you’re wrong, and though they may not be perfect(完美的), they at least will always care about you, and never do anything on purpose(故意地)to hurt you.
We all have our pest, guest, and best friends. We should value(重视) all friendships and remember, all best friends start out as just acquaintances.
1. If you and David are neighbors and classmates, and do things together, but don’t share your feelings, you are “________”.| A．pest friends | B．guest friends | C．best friends | D．not friends |
| A．how to make a best friend | B．how to learn from your best friends |
| C．what a “best friend” is | D．what a best friend can do for you |
| A．pest friends are important than guest friends |
| B．we miss our best friends when we’re not with them |
| C．a best friend hardly does something bad to you |
| D．a “pest friend” will never become your best friend |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．Friendship | B．Love Your Friends | C．Three Types of Friends | D．My Friends |
International Poetry Competition  World Poetry Day is celebrated on 21 March. Its purpose is to improve people’s ability to read, write, and teach poems all over the world. This year, the International Poetry Centre is holding a poetry competition to celebrate the festival! The competition is open to all the poets(诗人)aged 18 and over from all over the world, and they will be divided into two groups: Open Group (open to all the poets aged 18 and over) ESL Group (open to all the poets aged 18 and over who can write in English as a Second Language) The winners of each group will receive￡1000.  RULES: All the poems must be unpublished (未出版的) works. Poems will not be returned, so please keep a copy. The poem(s) must be in English and created by the poet himself/herself. Poems can be written on any proper subject. No subject on violence(暴力) or drugs. The competition begins on 3 March, 2017 and ends on 28 August, 2017. To enter the competition, please visit the Centre Shop to pay ￡5 for each poem. Once the payment is made, please email the poem(s) to poetrycomp@center.uk. Remember to mark Open or ESL in the top right-hand corner of the document(文档) to show which group to enter before emailing your poem(s). Questions about the competition can be emailed to poetrycomp@center.uk. |
1. The World Poetry Day is on_____.
| A．March 28th | B．March 3rd | C．March 21st | D．August 28th |
| A．to encourage the British to write poems |
| B．to teach children how to read and write poems |
| C．to raise money for the poets from all over the world |
| D．to help people to read, write and teach poems better |
| A．that poets can write poems in any language |
| B．that poets must use their unpublished poems |
| C．that poems can’t be taken back after the competition |
| D．that poems can’t be written on the subject of violence or drugs. |
| A．they win in the group | B．their poems are published |
| C．they enter the competition | D．their poems are written by themselves |
①Pay￡5 for each poem.
②Visit the Centre Shop.
③Email their poem(s) to poetrycomp@center.uk.
④Mark Open or ESL in the top right –hand corner of their document.
| A．①②③④ | B．②①③④ | C．②①④③ | D．③④②① |
6 . ①It is true that people with better education are usually able to get better-paid jobs. In other words, they have more chances to choose a good job while people with little or no education don’t.
②It seems that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs. But this isn’t accepted by all people. Some people may think that a person should spend the best years of his life getting education only for a way of living. This was probably one of the earliest reasons of education. In fact, if education is just a way of making a living, people don’t need to spend so much time at school. People can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to everyone. Even language and maths need not be taught in detail（详细地）either. Here it is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.
③Education is well-rounded（全面的）and it is mainly for improving a man. It is not only to teach him to speak, read and write, but also to develop his creative thinking and other abilities. After that, it is to make him a wise man and thankfully enjoy the achievements of humans. Education is to make a man lead a better life. Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music, read good books, watch good plays and take an interest in the world.
④I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education, but certainly not the most important or the main reason.
1. The earliest education was probably to ________.| A．make a man lead a better life |
| B．teach a man to write and read |
| C．make people get a way of living |
| D．teach people to read good books |
| A．The advantages of education. | B．The process of education. |
| C．The ways of getting education. | D．The people for getting the education. |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
| A．Education can improve a man. |
| B．Making a living is the main reason of education. |
| C．Little educated people can find jobs easily. |
| D．People can get education in a short time. |
7 . Cold weather has a great effect on how our minds and our bodies work. Maybe that is why there are so many expressions that use the word “cold”.
For example, people who show no human emotions or feelings are said to be cold-blooded. Cold can affect other parts of the body. But the expression “get cold feet” has nothing to do with cold or your feet. The expression means being afraid to do something you have decided to do. For example, you agree to be CEO of a company. But then you learn that all the other officers have resigned (辞职), and all the work of the company will be your responsibility (责任). You are likely to get cold feet about being CEO when you understand the situation.
The expression “give someone the cold shoulder” probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face to face. You may give the cold shoulder to a friend who has not kept a promise he made to you, or to someone who has lied about you to others.
“A cold fish” is not a fish. It is a person. But it is a person who is unemotional and shows no love or warmth. A cold fish does not offer much of himself to anyone. Someone who is a cold fish could be cold-hearted. He or she will never feel sorry for those in bad situation.
“Out in the cold” means not getting something that everybody else got. A person might say that everybody but him got a pay raise — he was left out in the cold. And it is not a pleasant place to be.
1. If you get cold feet, this means that .| A．you feel brave to do something | B．you feel too nervous to do something |
| C．you feel too cold to do something | D．you feel very angry about doing something |
| A．Henry was treated politely when he asked Mary to see a film |
| B．Henry was afraid to invite Mary to see a film with him |
| C．Mary didn’t care about Henry’s invitation and didn’t plan to go with him |
| D．Mary behaved unfriendly because she didn’t like to talk with Henry face toface |
| A．Opinions about cold weather. | B．Expressions connected with “cold”. |
| C．Relation between cold and body. | D．Examples of people who have a cold. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
8 . 
It was a week before I saw Captain Nemo again. Every morning, I noticed fresh air coming into the rooms and I knew that the Nautilus had surfaced(浮出水面). I would go out and see the sunrise.
Then I received a note from Captain Nemo. He invited me and my friends to go hunting with him in the forests of Crespo Island. Ned was excited because he thought there he could find a chance to escape. When I saw Captain Nemo the next day, I asked him why he was so interested in Crespo Island. "I thought you preferred the sea to being on land."
"I do," replied the Captain. "But these forests are under the sea." During breakfast, he explained that he had made diving suits(潜水服)that used special air tanks. These tanks would allow us to stay under the water for ten hours. He had also made lights that worked in electric batteries. When Ned realized that we were not going onto land for our hunting trip, he decided not to come at all.
Conseil and I put on our diving suits, and so did Captain Nemo and one of his men. We stepped into a room and closed the door. The room was filled with water, and another door opened. We must go through it, and we were in the sea floor. It was an amazing experience.
We were about ten meters under the water. The light from the sun reached us. Everything looked very colorful. We walked over the fine sand and enjoyed the colors of the shells, fish and seaweed. Conseil and I followed Captain Nemo and his man as they crossed a large grassy area. We were going deeper and deeper. Two hours later, we were a hundred meters under the water. The suits worked very well, and it was easy to walk and breathe.
At one hundred meters deep, we could still see quite well, and Captain Nemo stopped and pointed to some dark shapes. This was the forest. The "trees" in the forest were giant seaweed, and all their branches were vertical(垂直的). We could not stop looking at them. Fish swam around the branches like birds in a forest. Small shrubs(灌木) grew under the large seaweed trees. Some of them had flowers.
We walked through this forest for about an hour, and then we lay down to rest. I was not hungry, but I was very sleepy. We all slept, and when we woke up, we walked further.
(Adapted from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea)
1. What do you think the Nautilus is?| A．A kind of ship under the sea. | B．A kind of fish in the sea. |
| C．A kind of plane in the sky. | D．A kind of transport on land. |
| A．Captain Nemo | B．Captain Nemo's man |
| C．Ned | D．Conseil |
①They visited the forest.
②They crossed the large grassy area.
③They felt sleepy and lay down to rest.
④Captain Nemo made diving suits and lights.
⑤Captain Nemo invited some people to go hunting.
| A．④⑤①②③ | B．⑤④①②③ | C．③⑤④②① | D．⑤④②①③ |
| A．Ned and Nemo were close friends |
| B．Captain Nemo enjoyed the hunting trip |
| C．there were three people visiting the forest |
| D．it took them 30 minutes to walk through the forest |
| A．a sports magazine | B．a book review | C．a science fiction | D．a travel report |
9 . If you cannot live without your car, Zurich might be the last city you would like to visit. In Zurich, people are welcome, but cars are not! Over the past 20 years, this city has used smart ways to make traffic lighter.
One is to keep the same number of parking spaces. For example, if 50 new parking spaces are built in one part of the city, then 50 old spaces in other parts are taken away for other uses. So the total number doesn't change. Some are unhappy that there are never enough spaces. That is just what the city has in mind: If people find parking more difficult, they will drive less.
Also, the number of cars in the city is counted (数). Over 3,500 little computers are put under Zurich roads to check the number of cars that come into the city. If the number is higher than the city can deal with (处理), the traffic lights on the roads that enter the city will be kept red. So drivers who are traveling into Zurich have to stop and wait until there are fewer cars in the city.
Now, you may ask why Zurich is doing this. This is simply because the city wants to make more spaces for its people.
1. The writer tells us how to keep the same number of parking spaces by _______.| A．giving a reason | B．giving an example |
| C．sharing a story | D．drawing a picture |
1. Zurich only welcomes people with mini cars
2. Zurich is a small city with a long history
3. it's difficult to find a parking space in Zurich
4. you can't drive into Zurich at any time you want
| A．1, 3 | B．2, 3 | C．3, 4 | D．1, 4 |
| A．People will build more parking spaces under Zurich roads. |
| B．All the computers under Zurich roads will stop working. |
| C．Drivers will stop and wait before traveling into Zurich. |
| D．The lights on the roads in Zurich will be always kept red. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
