1 . There was a boy in India who was sent by his parents to a boarding school (寄宿学校). Before being sent away this boy was the _______student in his class. He was at the top in every _______. He was a winner.

But the boy _______ after leaving home and attending the boarding school. His grades started _______. He hated being in a group. He was _______ all the time. And there were especially dark times when he felt like _______ himself. All of this _______ because he felt worthless and no one loved him. His parents started _______ the boy. But they did not _______ know what was wrong with him. ________ his dad decided to travel to the boarding school and talk with him.

They sat ________ the bank of the lake near the school. The father ________ asking him casual (随便的) questions about his classes, teachers and ________. After some time his dad said, “Do you know, son, ________ I am here today?” The boy answered back, “To ________ my grades?” “No, no,” his dad replied, “I am here to tell you that you are the most important person for me. I want to see you happy. I don’t care about ________. I care about you. I care about your happiness. You are my world.” These words ________ the boy’s eyes to fill with tears. He ________ his dad. They didn’t say anything to each other for a long time.

Now the boy had everything he wanted. He knew there was someone on this ________ who cared for him deeply. He ________ the world to someone. And today this young man is in college at the top of his class and no one has ever seen him sad!

1.

A．richest

B．cleverest

C．laziest

D．prettiest

2.

A．competition

B．school

C．game

D．group

3.

A．fitted

B．changed

C．lost

D．refused

4.

A．growing

B．lasting

C．improving

D．dropping

5.

A．lonely

B．careless

C．worried

D．busy

6.

A．believing in

B．giving up

C．agreeing with

D．fighting against

7.

A．happened

B．stopped

C．came

D．disappeared

8.

A．worrying about

B．caring about

C．complaining about

D．talking about

9.

A．then

B．now

C．yet

D．even

10.

A．And

B．But

C．So

D．Or

11.

A．toward

B．along

C．opposite

D．on

12.

A．enjoyed

B．started

C．suggested

D．finished

13.

A．work

B．study

C．sport

D．education

14.

A．when

B．where

C．how

D．why

15.

A．check

B．watch

C．command

D．make

16.

A．classes

B．grades

C．appearances

D．ideas

17.

A．caused

B．permitted

C．taught

D．persuaded

18.

A．pushed

B．hit

C．hugged

D．begged

19.

A．side

B．day

C．trip

D．earth

20.

A．meant

B．lent

C．moved

D．left

2 . The bed should be used as a place for sleep, but more and more people like to read an iPad a lot in bed before they go to sleep.

Charles Czeisler, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and his coworkers got a small group of people for an experiment. For five days in a row, these people read either a paper book or an iPad for four hours before sleep. Their sleep patterns were monitored all night. Before and after each trial period, they took hourly blood tests to paint a day-long picture of just how much melatonin(褪黑激素) was in their blood at any time.

When the people read the iPad as compared to the paper books, they felt less sleepy at night and less active the following morning. People also took longer to fall asleep on the iPad nights, and the blood tests showed that their melatonin secretion(分泌) was delayed by an hour and a half.

The researchers concluded that because of the rise of e-readers and the widespread use of e-things among children and teenagers, more research into the "long-term influence of these e-things on health and safety is urgently needed." Czeisler and coworkers went on, in the research paper, to point out that reading an iPad in bed may increase cancer risk.

However, software has been developed that can reduce some of the blue light from the screens of phones and computers, and there are also glasses that are made to reduce short wavelengths. While they seem like a logic solution for the nighttime tech users, it needs more research.

1. In Charles Czeisler's experiment, the group of people were asked to_______.

A．sit in a row and receive the strict tests

B．have their sleep patterns observed all night

C．read a paper book and an iPad before sleep

D．have their blood tested per hour during the trial

2. The third paragraph tells us the iPad readers were likely to_______.

A．feel less sleepy and tired in the day

B．fall asleep more easily after reading

C．become less energetic the next morning

D．have a lot more melatonin secretion

3. The special software recently developed can _______.

A．reduce the blue light from the screens completely

B．help prevent eyes being harmed by short wavelengths

C．reduce the harm caused by doing nighttime e-reading

D．be used in all the e-things widely and safely

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．No e-reading in bed before sleep

B．New software for night e-readers

C．Wrong things to do before bedtime

D．No games on iPad in bed

3 . On the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for the discovery of artemisinin, has been awarded China's Medal of the Republic. The medal is the country's highest honor for outstanding figures that have made great contributions to the construction and the development of the P.R.C.

Tu Youyou, born in 1930, has become the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, for her work in helping to create an anti-malaria medicine. The 84-year-old’s route to the honor has been anything but traditional. In China, she is being called the “three nos” winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she’s never worked overseas. In 1967, malaria, a then deadly disease, spread by mosquitoes was decimating Chinese soldiers fighting Americans in the jungles of northern Vietnam. A secret research unit “Mission 523” was formed to find a cure for the illness. Two years later, Tu Youyou was instructed to become the new head of “Mission 523”.

“Mission 523” read ancient books carefully for a long time to find historical methods of fighting malaria. When she started her search for an anti-malaria drug, more than 240,000 compounds(化合物)around the world had already been tested, without any success. Finally, the team found a brief reference to one substance, sweet wormwood(青蒿), which had been used to treat malaria in China around 400 A.D. The team took out one active compound in wormwood, and then tested it. But nothing was effective until Tu Youyou returned to the original ancient text. After another careful reading, she changed the drug recipe one final time, heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point.

After the drug showed promising results in mice and monkeys, Tu Youyou volunteered to be the first human recipient of the new drug. “In any case, Tu Youyou is consistently praised for her drive and passion”. One former colleague, Lianda Li, says Ms. Tu is “unsociable and quite straightforward”, adding that “if she disagrees with something, she will say it.”

Another colleague, Fuming Liao, who has worked with Tu Youyou for more than 40 years, describes her as a “tough and stubborn woman”. Stubborn enough to spend decades piecing together ancient texts, she applies them to modern scientific practices. The result has saved millions of lives.

1. According to Paragraph 2, we can learn that        .

A．Tu is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize

B．Tu has a medical degree

C．Tu’s road to success is not traditional

D．Tu discovered a cure for malaria

2. The underlined word “decimating” in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by        .

A．encouraging	B．killing
C．annoying	D．benefiting

3. Which of the following statements is true?

A．Tu first invented the idea of using sweet wormwood as a cure.

B．Tu was inspired by medical textbooks published in northern Vietnam.

C．The compound needs to be heated to the boiling point to be effective.

D．Over 240,000 compounds were proved ineffective before Tu’s search.

4. Tu Youyou can be best described as a        person.

A．devoted and stubborn	B．straightforward and mean
C．considerate and tough	D．sociable and generous

4 . Many years later, I was sailing to Europe on a fine sailing ship across the Atlantic. For the greater part of the ________ we had pleasant weather, ________ towards the end of our crossing a terrible storm ________ and the ship would have sunk with all on ________ but for the efforts of the captain.

The ship started to leak and began to fill with water. The sailors were strong, able and willing. But after pumping for one whole night, they were losing the battle against the rising water and were on the ________of giving up.

The captain, as soon as he realized the ________, took charge. He ordered the sailors back to their pumps and encouraged them fiercely to ________ the ship. His strong will doubled their ________. How the men pumped like crazy! When the captain passed by me, I asked him whether there was any hope of saving the ship. He looked at me. “Yes sir.” he said. “While my feet remain standing above the water ________, there is hope. Neither I nor any of the sailors will leave the ship ________ it remains above the surface of the   ________. We shall do everything we can to save the ship and if we should fail, it will not be our________.” Then he turned to all the passengers and shouted, “To the pumps, every one of you!”

Three times during that day when we almost wanted to give up, the captain's courage, determination and iron ________forced us to ________, and we went back to the pumps. “I will ________ you safe in Liverpool,” he cried. “If you will stay strong and firm with me.”

In the end the ship sank soon after it reached the port of Liverpool but the captain did land us safe. The captain stood at the edge of the ship once it was safely tied up to the wall of the port and ________the thanks of the passengers as they hurried off the ship. As I expressed to him my________, he held my hand firmly, looked into my eyes and said, “Sir, don’t you ________ me?” I told him that I did not. “The boy who you followed when he had so much difficulty in buying a geography book, some thirty years ago in Cincinnati?” “Why yes. I ________that boy very well. His name was William Hartley.” “I am that same William Hartley.” “Goodness!” I said, “What good fortune that I travelled with you as my captain! The ________that thirty years ago got you that geography book has today saved our lives.”

1.

A．journey

B．travel

C．trip

D．voyage

2.

A．and

B．but

C．however

D．so

3.

A．came across

B．came through

C．came out

D．came up

4.

A．broad

B．board

C．abroad

D．aboard

5.

A．point

B．edge

C．time

D．end

6.

A．situation

B．condition

C．state

D．stage

7.

A．break

B．leave

C．save

D．settle

8.

A．effects

B．efforts

C．experiences

D．hardships

9.

A．height

B．level

C．altitude

D．degree

10.

A．so long as

B．as far as

C．as well as

D．as soon as

11.

A．river

B．bank

C．sea

D．beach

12.

A．mistake

B．concern

C．fault

D．reason

13.

A．hand

B．attitude

C．head

D．will

14.

A．insist

B．remain

C．last

D．continue

15.

A．make

B．ship

C．land

D．sail

16.

A．afforded

B．achieved

C．received

D．admitted

17.

A．encouragement

B．guidance

C．greeting

D．gratitude

18.

A．realize

B．know

C．recognize

D．rescue

19.

A．remind

B．remember

C．recover

D．regard

20.

A．choice

B．courage

C．determination

D．decision

5 . Mokpo City is holding the 17th Korea-China-Japan Sport Complex Competition, and looking for 50 interpreters (口译者) for this event. This event will be held from August 23^rd to August 29^th. Korean, Japanese and Chinese high school students who are under the age of 18 will take part in the competition. Anyone who is interested in the job is welcomed to apply.

Application Period: May 20^th - May 29^th

Interpreters needed: 20 Chinese interpreters, 20 Japanese interpreters and 10 reserve interpreters
Application Steps

* The 1st step: Look over submitted (递交的) documents

* The 2nd step: Interview

Requirements

* Only Koreans or foreigners who are in Korea can apply.

* Foreigners applying must be fluent in Korean.

How to Apply

* Applicants can submit their application forms by emailing to happy3837@korea.kr, by mail or in person at Mokpo City Hall.

* Reception desk: Office of Korea-China-Japan Junior Competition, Dept. of Sport Industries at Mokpo City Hall

* Send mail to: Yangeulro 271, Mokpo-si, Jeollanam-do (Postal code: 530-701)

Notice: Applicants who submit their application forms by email have to make sure their e-mails have been received by calling at 061-270-3402, 3682, 8280 (Person in charge: Kim, Ju-yeong).

Required Documents

* One copy of the application form (The official form is attached.)

* One copy of the certificate of language qualification (语言资格证书)

Schedule of Interview and Announcement

* Interview: Thursday, June 4^th, 10: 00 am

* Final announcement: Wednesday, June 10^th at http://www.mokpo.go.kr/

Working Conditions

* Uniform, accommodations and meals will be provided.

* 80,000 WON per day will be paid.

* The interpreting certificate of this activity will be given.

For more information, please contact the Dept. of Sport Industries (061-270-3402, 3628, 8280)

1. How long will the event last?

A．Six days.	B．Seven days.
C．Nine days.	D．Ten days.

2. How do applicants make sure their emails have been received?

A．By waiting for a call from Mokpo City Hall.

B．By going to the reception desk in person.

C．By sending another email to confirm it.

D．By calling Kim, Ju-yeong, the person in charge.

3. When will the applicants know the final results?

A．On June 10th.	B．On May 29th.
C．On June 4th.	D．On August 29th.

4. What can be learned from the passage?

A．The interpreters are from all over the world.

B．The interpreters must be good at Chinese.

C．The interpreters must prepare their meals themselves.

D．The interpreters can get an interpreting certificate.

6 . Like many, I felt pressure from my parents and teachers to go to university and study something academic. With top grades I received at the end of high school, I was almost able to enter any course of my pick. Yet the thought of spending the next few years facing the four walls of a classroom caused a lump (肿块) in my throat.

After a year majoring in photography at university, which was not just what I expected, I made the decision to take a break and go on a gap year. In fact, I gained more knowledge in the real world in four months than I did from my entire schooling, but most importantly, I learnt so much about myself.

One day, my posted photos were noticed by Topdeck Travel, and they asked if they could use some of my travel pictures for their posters. This really was the beginning of my career. I began developing my relationship with Topdeck Travel, and before long, I got my first pay travel overseas to take photographs.

Soon I reached the point where I had to make a decision— either to play it safe, go back to university and settle down like everyone else, or to follow my heart and go my own way— a path with an uncertain future. I chose the latter, and it was the scariest and best decision I have ever made.

Five years after leaving school, I might not have a university degree, a well-paid job, a husband or a house with a white fence. Instead, I’m sitting at my office, with a cafe by a beach at Goa, India. As I stare past my laptop screen at the sun setting beyond the waves, a salty breeze touches my face.

To me, success is about pursuing my dreams and creating my own path instead of trying to follow someone else’s. Somehow, I feel like my life is exactly where it is meant to be.

1. What did the author think of going to university?

A．She took it seriously.	B．She showed little interest.
C．She looked forward to it.	D．She thought it was a must.

2. What benefit did the author gain from her gap year?

A．The knowledge about the real world.

B．Her paid overseas travel experience.

C．Realizing what she really wanted in her life.

D．Knowing what really mattered at university.

3. What can we infer about the author from the passage?

A．She regrets not going back to university.

B．She gets less knowledge in the real world.

C．She feels quite satisfied with her present life.

D．She misses the days working for Topdeck Travel.

7 . David sat on the hard ground, scratching(乱划) his name with a stick. As he finished the last letter “d”, he noticed a rosy old ______ shone in the dirt.

“David!” his mother called. David looked ______, glared at the yellow farmhouse that was now supposed to be his home, put the key in his ______ and walked down the hill.

Grandpa had ______ away last year, leaving the house and farm to David’s mother. She had chosen to ______ her job and move to the farm. David had been very unhappy about leaving his friends.

In the city, dinnertime had always been an opportunity for ______ between David and his mother. Here, ______, he had nothing to say. He knew his silence ______ his mother, but surely it was better than the angry stream of ______ that lay in wait behind it. After swallowing up a plateful of spaghetti(面条), he ______ said, “Thanks,” and went to his room.

Later, he went out to look for something to read. In the deep silence, he saw his mother sat alone. On her lap lay a ______ album. Looking up, she smiled ______, “See what I found, David? Here’s your great-grandfather. He’s about your age in this picture. Do you think you look like him?”

David stuck his hands into his pockets and shrugged(耸肩). He ______ the old key.

“Here it’s his wedding day. Next to him is his bride.” his mother continued David moved ______ and glanced down at the photograph. Then something else caught his ______. “What’s that?” he asked, pointing to a painted wooden box in front of her.

“It’s a ______ music box,” she put down the album and took the box gently with both hands. “Years ago, my brother dropped the key out there ______. We searched and searched but never ______ it.”

David opened his hand. His mother’s eyes sparkled(闪烁). “That’s it! How did you…?”

With trembling hands, she fit the key into the hole and ______ up the music box. As its sweet music played, mother and son listened together.

“It has been silent for a long, long time,” the mother said.

“It’s so clear!” said David. “It sounds as good as new.” The ______ had been broken.

1.

A．key

B．stick

C．coin

D．ring

2.

A．out

B．up

C．over

D．away

3.

A．bag

B．hand

C．box

D．pocket

4.

A．passed

B．went

C．stayed

D．moved

5.

A．lose

B．change

C．quit

D．handle

6.

A．meeting

B．drinking

C．relaxation

D．conversation

7.

A．therefore

B．instead

C．however

D．besides

8.

A．hurt

B．reached

C．followed

D．saved

9.

A．calls

B．words

C．books

D．questions

10.

A．quickly

B．loudly

C．happily

D．delightedly

11.

A．music

B．stamp

C．record

D．photo

12.

A．weakly

B．coldly

C．hopefully

D．angrily

13.

A．kept

B．felt

C．hid

D．put

14.

A．closer

B．faster

C．lower

D．straighter

15.

A．arm

B．name

C．eye

D．breath

16.

A．small

B．smelly

C．lovely

D．silent

17.

A．nowhere

B．somewhere

C．anywhere

D．everywhere

18.

A．learned

B．returned

C．caught

D．found

19.

A．brought

B．picked

C．wound

D．gave

20.

A．promise

B．silence

C．peace

D．agreement

8 . Worries about the extra time needed to walk or bike to work are a big reason people get into their cars, but those worries may be unfounded.

In a new study, researchers asked 253 staff and 252 students at Penn State how often they drove, took the bus, walked, or biked to school. Participants also answered questions about how long they thought it would take them to walk or bike from their home to school. Google Maps calculated actual travel times.

According to the findings, about 91 percent of staff incorrectly estimated (估计) how long it would take to walk to school, and about 93 percent overestimated how long it would lake to bike.

Students were a little better at estimating travel times－about 55 percent incorrectly estimated walking times and about 43 percent misestimated biking times. Almost everyone who was not accurate overestimated the travel time.

The findings clarify the barriers that keep people from walking or biking, sometimes referred to as“active travel,” says Melissa Bopp, a professor at Penn State. He pointed out the key to getting people to travel more actively is to learn more about people’ s knowledge, altitudes, and beliefs.“I can’ t change your age, but I can change your knowledge,”Bopp says.

Several characteristics could predict if someone was more likely to estimate travel time incorrectly. Staff who thought parking was more available and accessible were more discordant （不一致的), and women were more likely to be more discordant than men.

On the contrary, people who rode a bike or walked more often were more likely to accurately predict travel times.

While the study looked at people predicting travel time when they shared a common destination, the results have broader meanings.

1. Which of the following can best replace the underlined word “unfounded” in Paragraph 1?

A．unnecessary.	B．normal.
C．disturbing.	D．beneficial.

2. What conclusion can we draw from the findings?

A．School staff lack common sense.

B．Everyone overestimated the traveling time by bike.

C．School students estimated more accurately in the study.

D．Students have higher intelligence than school staff.

3. What matters in getting people involved in “active travel”?

A．Weight.	B．Status.
C．Age.	D．Knowledge.

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A．Walking or biking is beneficial to you.

B．Walking or biking is quicker than you’ d think.

C．Walking or biking is becoming more popular.

D．People walking or biking can predict accurately.

9 . A good way to look at failure straight in the face is by writing a failure resume(简历)or CV. Like social media，there，we usually only see our friends’“highlight part”. When we look at others’resumes，we get scared and think how ours doesn’t measure up. But even the most accomplished people have plenty of failure behind them—we just don’t see it.

Stefan felt this deeply as a scientist，so she wrote a different CV which of course boasted (夸耀)about her good grades，PhD，and published papers. But the way she deals with her failure CV is a model of what we could a11 do.

“My CV does not reflect my great academic efforts—it does not mention the exams I failed，my unsuccessful PhD or scholarship applications，or the papers never accepted for publication. During the interviews，I talk about the one project that worked，not about the many that failed，”writes Stefan in a column for Nature.com.

Stefan suggests keeping a draft on which you log，casually but regularly，every unsuccessful application，refused grant proposal and rejected paper.

And that’s the point：not to consider what we got wrong，but to use that information to both look at failure and realize it’s really okay，and also to use our failures for another purpose：as learning tools.

The point is to be real—with ourselves and about how the world works. Being real means taking an honest，critical，but also kind look at what we didn’t get right，and then doing our best to change what we can. Instead of focusing on how that failure makes you feel，take the time to step back and analyze the practical，operational reasons that you failed.

So，prctice being okay with failure，and turning your failures into lessons learned. And yes，sometimes we have to learn those lessons more than once，letting go of what you can’t change. And keep moving forward to success.

1. What does the underlined word“it”in the first paragraph refer to?

A．Plenty of failure.	B．A failure resume.
C．Highlight part.	D．Social media.

2. What did Stefan intend to tell us in paragraph 3?

A．A11 her failures in her career.

B．Benefits she got from her failures.

C．The content of her own resume.

D．The difference between her resume and others’.

3. What does Stefan advise us to do in our careers?

A．Regard failures as part of our life.

B．Keep a record of our failures.

C．Value our achievements.

D．Long for failures.

4. Which of the following best describes the author’s opinion?

A．No pains，no gains.

B．A11 roads lead to Rome.

C．Where there is a will，there is a way.

D．Failure is the mother of success.

10 . Language and culture are connected to each other in so many ways: language names and explains important events and people. When the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792) ordered a lunch (so that he didn’t have to leave the gaming tables) there was no word to refer to the bread-and-butter-encased food that has ever since borne his name. Another example is grog, a drink of rum(朗姆酒)mixed with water. The word was coined from the nickname(绰号)of Admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757)—Old Grog. The nickname came from the cloak(披风)of “ grogram ” which he habitually wore, and it provided the word for watered-down rum which he gave to sailors. In Australia it has become the word for alcoholic(含酒精的)drink of any kind. Both sandwich and grog are known throughout the English-speaking world, and have been borrowed into other European languages—sandwich into French, and grog into German.

In Australia some rather more specialised foods go by the names of local heroes and heroines. The lamington owes its name to Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, Second Baron of Lamington, who was governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901. He was well-known for his concern for the treatment of local workers in northern Qucensland. Another sweet, Peach Melba, was invented in 1892 or 1893 by the French cook Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel, London, to respect the Australian singer Nellie Melba.

Some words have their origin in the sports world. The boxer Larry Foley (1849-1917) stopped boxing at the age of 30, having developed a training school for young boxers. His name is probably the one behind the expression “give someone Larry Dooley". Also a sporting hero was the footballer Roy Cazaly (1893-1963), who is the person in “ Up There Cazaly ” , used well beyond football as an expression of encouragement. He became a great footballer by taking amazingly high marks for the St Kilda and South Melbourne clubs.

1. What's the origin of the word"grog"?

A．It was first used by Vernon.

B．It was borrowed from German.

C．It dates back to the late 18th century.

D．It has some relationship with clothes.

2. Which of the following is related to an Australian singer?

A．Sandwich.	B．Grog.
C．Lamington.	D．Peach Melba.

3. What is the possible meaning of "give someone Larry Dooley"?

A．Give up somebody.	B．Encourage somebody.
C．Give somebody a beating.	D．Teach somebody to fight.

4. What similarity do the words and expressions mentioned in the text share?

A．They are difficult to understand.	B．They come from people’s names.
C．They have been used for centuries.	D．They are mainly used in Australia.