2 . Let’s imagine this: Your parents are going out of town for a week. You’re left with 800 yuan. How will you spend it? It would be silly to spend the money at the mall, especially if you already have great clothes in your room, right? A better way to spend that money would be on key things such as food and transportation. You’d probably also want to put part of the money aside for something else.

Well, you just learned how to budget (预算). It’s all about deciding what matters the most to you and how much you want to spend on these things.

Working out your priorities (优先事项) is the most important part of budgeting. For example, if you plan on buying a new smartphone and a cool smartwatch, you should consider saving some money. The next time your friends invite you to go to KTV with them, you might as well decide to pass.

But having a budget doesn’t mean you can’t have fun; you just have to get creative. Instead of meeting your friends at the pizza shop and then going to the movies, you could invite them over to your house. You can buy some frozen pizzas at the supermarket and watch a movie online. It’s a lot cheaper but just as fun.

If you search for budgeting tips, you’ll find many. As a young person, you have plenty of chances to experiment (尝试) with different ways. Once you find a way that works for you, it’s easier to get excited about budgeting.

Keep in mind that even adults make mistakes at times. If you go over your budget, just try to learn from your mistakes.

1. Why does the writer suggest spending the money on food and transportation?

A．Because they cost less money.

B．Because they may avoid trouble.

C．Because they are more important in daily life.

2. In paragraph 3, what does the underlined word “pass” mean here?

A．Go to the party.

B．Refuse the invitation.

C．Make a plan.

3. According to the passage, how can we make the budget creative?

A．By searching things online.

B．By doing something by ourselves.

C．By working out how much we want to spend.

4. What can we infer (推断) about the writer’s opinion on budgeting?

A．It can be easier for adults.

B．It can be difficult but helpful.

C．It can stop people having fun.

5. Which can be the best title for this passage?

A．Learning to Spend Money Wisely

B．The Importance of Saving Money

C．Tips on How to Make More Money

3 . 《荀子·劝学》中曾写到“锲而舍之，朽木不折；锲而不舍，金石可镂”。坚持是一种优秀的品质，也是我们人生道路上一种必不可少的精神。某中学随机抽取500人，做了一项“你坚持时间最长的事情是什么？”的调查问卷。下面是相关的统计结果。

假如你是该校学生，请根据以上图表信息，用两段话写一篇短文。
内容包括：
1. 简要说明图表内容；
2. 从图表中选出一种你曾经坚持时间最长的事情，并结合自己的亲身经历，谈谈这种坚持给你带来的积极影响。
要求：
1. 词数不少于80词，开头已给出，不计入总词数；
2. 提示词汇仅供参考；
3. 文中不能出现真实的人名、校名。

Word Bank persist   v. 坚持 persistent   adj. 坚持不懈的 persistence   n. 坚持 quality   n. 品质

A school did a survey among 500 students about what they persist in doing. Here are the results.

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4 . 阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或所给单词的提示，在每个空格内填入一个恰当的词，要求所填的词意义准确、形式正确，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。

Imagine this: your parents go away on business, but you have to stay at home alone. Would life be as easy     1     when your parents are around? Would it be a     2     /'pɜːrfikt/ holiday for you?

“I can fill an empty stomach     3     tomato and egg soup, but that’s all. I think many of my     4     (classmate) are the same. We wouldn’t know what to do, or how to look after     5    .” said Zheng Chenyu. “As soon as I leave home, I’ll learn to cook. But now parents do almost     6     /'evrɪθɪŋ/ for us.”

Most teenagers don’t learn any life skills     7     /ən'tɪl/ they go to college. However, Sima Yige doesn’t think so.

“I think I’d be all right. I wouldn’t just eat sandwiches or fruit. I know how to cook some simple dishes because my mum once     8     (show) me,” the 13-year-old boy said. In his opinion, many teenagers depend too much on their parents, and there is much more to learn than     9     (cook), like “tidying up your room or even dressing yourself     10     (proper)”.

For most teenagers it wouldn’t be a holiday at all.

5 . 请阅读下面短文，根据语篇内容，从所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使短文意思通顺，并在答题卡上将选项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余项。

Do you feel lonely? The World Health Organization (WHO) says that loneliness is becoming a health threat (威胁) nowadays.     1     It also hopes that people should treat loneliness in a proper way.

People often wrongly mix loneliness with being alone. In fact, people become lonely when they have feelings of isolation (孤独). At the same time, they still want social connection. Their mind is usually in pain because they aren’t connected with others.     2     People who enjoy spending time alone can continue to socialize with others happily whenever they want.

Social isolation has a bad influence on the health of all age groups across the world. According to the WHO, for old people, one in four of them experience social isolation.     3     Social disconnection can lead to many problems. For example, students with poorer social connection more probably drop out of school.     4     A WHO study said that lonely people may have more possibilities to have heart diseases.

    5     The WHO stressed this by comparing it to other early death reasons like smoking and air pollution. Loneliness has a far-reaching influence on health, similar to smoking up to 15 cigarettes (香烟) a day.

A．Loneliness can even lead to an early death.

B．However, being alone is something people choose.

C．It calls for people to deal with the problem more seriously.

D．Also, social disconnection can be connected to depression (抑郁).

E．For teenagers, between 5 and 15 percent of them experience loneliness.

F．Sadly, most young people say they can’t get enough attention from their parents.

6 . 阅读短文，根据语篇要求填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词。
Dear Dr. Know,

Can you help me? I’m not happy because there are     1     many rules at home. Every morning, I must get up at six o’clock. At school, I have to wear a school uniform,     2     I have to keep my hair short. After school, I can’t play     3     my friends or watch TV because I must do my homework. I can’t relax on weekends either     4     I must learn to play the piano. I hardly     5     have fun. What can I do?

Zhao Pei

7 . Rob Frenette had problems with bullies (霸凌) at school for eleven years. He was always lonely and ________ until one day he was fifteen. He had had enough of the studies and decided to do something about his problems. He walked into a ________ office and told them about the bullying. The news reporter was ________ and soon his story went into the newspaper and all the TV stations in Canada wanted to talk to him about his ________. They also wanted to hear his ideas to stop bullying.

After that, Rob continued his ________ at school and got better marks in them. But in his free time, he helped ________ with bullying problems. With a friend Katie Neu, he made a website called www.bullyingcanada.cn.

Visitors to the website can find stories, poems and advice about bullying, in both English and French. When people are ________, they can talk on telephone or online to Rob and his team. Every weekend Rob has to ________ e-mails to the people in need on the website. He also talks to children and teachers, even the members of government around the country, about bullying, to make laws ________ school bullies.

Rob’s most important message is: “When bullies are unkind to you, it isn’t your fault. There’s ________ wrong with you, so you should try to keep ________ yourself. You should be brave yourself. And remember that there are people ________ your problems. What you have to do is just to find those people.”

One of Rob’s ideas is “Blue Day”, a ________ day for stopping bullying in schools. It is called a “Blue Day” because ________ that day students have to wear blue clothes and in class they learn how to stop bullying. More than 150 Canadian schools now ________ Blue Day, but Rob won’t stop until there’s a Blue Day in every school in Canada.

1.

A．excited

B．surprised

C．scared

D．relaxed

2.

A．post

B．teachers’

C．newspaper

D．headmaster’s

3.

A．happy

B．excited

C．shocked

D．afraid

4.

A．descriptions

B．experiences

C．successes

D．ideas

5.

A．decisions

B．opinions

C．stories

D．studies

6.

A．himself

B．the class

C．others

D．the school

7.

A．worrying

B．exciting

C．interesting

D．happy

8.

A．receive

B．check

C．copy

D．reply

9.

A．stopping

B．to stop

C．stops

D．stop

10.

A．nothing

B．something

C．everything

D．anything

11.

A．encouraging

B．trusting

C．believing

D．teaching

12.

A．caring about

B．talking about

C．joking about

D．telling about

13.

A．crazy

B．surprising

C．common

D．special

14.

A．until

B．before

C．on

D．after

15.

A．remember

B．celebrate

C．forget

D．refuse

8 . Walking slowly out of the classroom by himself to the dining room; taking his lunch, sitting and eating alone at a table of four seats, such moments are pretty normal to be seen on the 14-year-old schoolboy, Peter. He spends most of his school time on his own, which leads his parents to worry about him so much.

His parents’ worries are easy to understand. It is widely accepted that being alone is a symbol of being left out and can bring a lot of trouble. Most people believe teenagers who are usually alone do have few friends and are unable to fit in with other people. At the same time, they are at greater risk of having mental (心理的) problems.

However, a new study by some researchers at Wilmington College, shows that this may not always be true. Whether it is bad for teenagers or not depends on the reasons why teenagers are alone. If it is their choice, it may play an active role in their personal growth.

According to their study, when teenagers choose to think alone, they put 100% of their attention into what is in their mind and are more likely to experience deeper thoughts and feelings than working with others. They may have a greater chance to create something new. In this way they can better develop their creativity (创造力).

On the other hand, the on-going noise children’s brains receive every day can put great stress on them and make it hard for them to focus (专注). Being alone lets them shut themselves of from the noisy outside world and think about what’s best for them. Slowly they improve their ability to focus.

As a matter of fact, our culture is always biased (偏见的) against being alone. Maybe it is the right time for us to rethink about Peter’s situation before we say what’s happening to him.

1. According to the study by the researchers, being alone ________.

A．is often a symbol of loneliness	B．never causes problems
C．always improves teenagers’ focus	D．may develop teenagers’ creativity

2. The writer starts the passage by ________.

A．comparing two different opinions	B．giving an example
C．asking a question	D．describing the main character

3. Which of the following shows the right structure (结构) of the passage?
(①-Para 1; ②-Para 2; ③-Para 3; ④-Para 4; ⑤-Para 5; ⑥-Para 6)

A．①/②③/④⑤/⑥	B．①/②③④/⑤/⑥
C．①/②/③④⑤/⑥	D．①/②/③④⑤⑥

9 . Mobile phones (手机) have become a problem for middle schools. Some middle schools in Australia have stopped students from carrying mobile phones during school hours. The mobile phone use among children has become a problem for the school this year. Several children have got mobile phones as Christmas gifts, and more students will want them.

Mary, a teacher, said the mobile phone use is a distraction (干扰) to students during school hours and it also gives teachers so much trouble in their classrooms. Teachers also said that sometimes students might use phone messages to copy during exams. She said some schools tried to stop mobile phones. Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t get in touch with their children.

Many teachers said students should not have mobile phones at school, but if there was a good reason, they could leave their phones at the school office. They also said there were many reasons why the students should not have mobile phones at school, they were easy to lose and were a distraction for studies.

Many people say that they understand why parents would want their children to have phones, but they think schools should let the students know when they can use their mobile phones.

1. What’s the problem for the school this year?
_______________________________
2. Is Mary a teacher or a student?
_______________________________
3. When might students use phone messages to copy?
_______________________________
4. How did some parents feel when some schools tried to stop mobile phones?
_______________________________
5. According to teachers, why shouldn’t the students have mobile phones at school?
_______________________________

10 . 假如你是李华，最近你和你父母就“中学生该不该与同学在周末外出活动”进行了讨论。现在请你以“Should teenagers go out with their friends on weekends?”为题，写一篇英语短文。

Your parents’ ideas	Your ideas
finish one’s homework	relax oneself (reading books, watching TV, ... )
have a good rest	do some exercise with sb. (climbing, running, ...)
help sb. with housework	take part in voluntary (visiting the elderly, cleaning, ... )
...	...

要求：1. 内容必须包括表格中所给提示信息，可适当发挥。
2. 文中不能出现真实的人名和地名。
3. 词数80词左右（开头已给出，不计入总词数）。

Should teenagers go out with their friends on weekends?

Recently, I’ve discussed with my parents if teenagers should go out with their friends on weekends. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________