1 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
A New Way to Learn Languages

Nowadays, the Internet is changing the way people learn languages. There is still no way to avoid the hard work through vocabulary lists and grammar rules, but since the birth of the Internet, books, tapes and even CDs     1     (replace) by email, video chat and social networks.

Livemocha, a Seattle-based company, has created a website helping people learn more than 38 languages by exchanging messages over the Internet and then     2     (correct) each other’s messages. The lessons,     3     form they are in, are delivered online.

The CEO of Livemocha says the website’s advantage is the context     4     you may practice speaking with a real person. “The great irony is that even if you have learned a foreign language in the classroom for years, you are not confident     5     (go) into a restaurant, striking up a conversation,” he said. The casual connections with real people throughout the world are not just fun and surprising but reveal more about     6     the language is really used.

Livemocha is now experimenting with many ways that resemble the games     7     (find) on other social websites to motivate people. Besides, each person can set up a profile     8     includes a short self-description and what language he or she would like to learn. Therefore, if you want to learn one language, you will easily find many people fluent in this language. And it becomes     9     (challenging) to find a study partner. An email or two is all it takes.

There are more and more companies like Livemocha offering online language learning to students throughout the world.     10     merely helping people practice different languages, they also enable people to share interests and make new friends

2 . Diving with a Purpose

The water is cool against my skin, the silence absolute, and as I hover (盘旋) over the remains at the bottom of the sea, I feel peaceful, thankful, a sense of coming home.

Go underwater with me, and you’ll see about 30 other divers, paired in sets of two. They calmly float in place, despite strong currents off the coast of Key Largo, Florida, sketching images of coral-covered artifacts or taking measurements.     1    

We are members of Diving With a Purpose, a group that trains divers to find and conserve (保存) historical and cultural artifacts buried deep in the waters.     2     Since its founding, DWP has trained some 500 divers to help archaeologists and historians search for and document such ships.

    3     During the voyages from shores to shores, and inside the ships, we can find clues to a history little discussed, to stories that have been lost in the depths. We can begin to assemble long-lost threads that help us better understand our obligation to the past and to each other.

However, the wrecks are hard to find. Ships from the past were primarily made of wood, and they have disintegrated over time and been absorbed by the sea. Searchers today use equipment such as side-scan sonars (声呐) to detect unnatural, manufactured materials in dark water.     4     So we must be intentional about how we are documenting, to ensure that we’re not disturbing the wreck or ocean creatures.

The sandy ocean floor covers and reveals as it fancies. What may be seen today may not be seen tomorrow. A proper expedition with historians and archaeologists can take years. But it is important to take as long as is needed to look.

A．Its goal is to help us find history and stories under the water.

B．We are helping document and mapping the remains of a shipwreck.

C．We love and volunteer to go underwater for the magic and cool feelings.

D．However, in some ways there is still so much we don’t know about DWP.

E．The information we gather from the depths tells a more inclusive history of us.

F．Unfortunately, the work can take place at sites home to marine life that shouldn’t be disturbed.

5 . Amid people’s passion for the Winter Olympics in Beijing. an unhappy issue on the day right before the Valentine’s Day put a damper on the worldwide event. When four policemen were having a meal outside Starbucks located at the old town of Ciqikou, Chongqing a shop assistant, hoping to make room for other customers, drove them out with an inappropriate choice of words, sparking a heated discussion on Weibo, one of China’s largest social media platforms.

Despite people’s outrageous disappointment at Starbucks, the chain store still remains dominant in the coffee market of massive cities such as Shanghai. Housing over 900 stores, Shanghai tops the list of the number of Starbucks stores with its largest store in the world, Shanghai Roastery, opened on West Nanjing Road in 2018.

Furthermore, Shanghai also has the reputation of having most coffee stores in the world. Various coffee stores can be accessed in Shanghai. Recommended are offered:

*****4.6   ￥26/per person       MANNER Taste:4.6 Environment:4.7 Service:4.5 Mon-Thu 08:00-20:30 Fri-Sun 08:00-21:30	*****4.4   ￥44/per person ARABICA Taste: 43. Environment: 4.3 Service 4.3 Mon-Thu 09:00-18:00 Fri-Sun 09:00-19:00
Situated alongside Huangpu River with a giant Panda doll sitting on its rooftop, the Xuhui branch store of Manner Coffee has become a WeChat moments-worthy location. Although people will wait a long time before tasting the coffee, the tents on the rooftop and the landscape are worth the effort. Flat white and Panda latte are the most sought-after coffee products.	Take a walk with your eyes open, and you will find a sun porch at the end of a lane off Wukang Road. Bright sunlight is Arabica’s most powerful marketing too. Visitors keep popping into the coffee shop for its minimalist interior and Spanish latte. Whoever visit this place will be reminded of the saying that good wine needs no brush. “Coffee” is a better substitute here, though.
*****4.5 ￥57/per person   O.P.S Taste:4.5 Environment: 4.2 Service: 4.6 Mon-Sun 10:00-18:00	*****4.4 ￥57/person     RALPH’S Taste:4.3 Environment:4.3 Service:4.4 Mon-Fri: 09:00-21:00 Sat-Sum10:00-22:00
The O.P.S. Cafe is an open window on Taiyuan Road, offering only takeaway coffee for customers. The menu, though updated seasonally, displays only five products. When customers get their coffee, they also receive a card bearing its brewing process. Verbal introductions can also be expected from coffee makers, stirring a warmer feeling in customer heart. The winter specials of O.P.S. include into the Wild and Fantasy of the Deep Forest.	Ralph’s coffee, an expanded business sector of Ralph Lauren, America’s famous clothing brand is a popular place at Jing’ an Kerry Center. It’s the third branch store opened following Hong Kong and Beijing. The coffee shop sports its Himalayan salt caramel latte. Apart from its coffee and cake, peripheral products such as fluffy bear dolls, plates, hats are on sale as well. Many people are deeply attracted by its nostalgic interior as well as its green and white style.

1. The underlined phrase in paragraph one has a similar meaning to"

A．was closely related to	B．sparked dissatisfaction with
C．ruined the atmosphere of	D．was overshadowed by

2. According to the passage, which of the following statements is probably NOT true?

A．Into the Wild is not available in the next season.

B．Spanish latte is more expensive than Panda latte.

C．O.P.S. Cafe staff can tell you in person how they make their coffee.

D．River view can be enjoyed at Manner coffee

3. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．The interior style of Arabica is associated with a sense of luxury.

B．Visitors are attracted by the old-fashioned style of Ralph’s coffee.

C．Shanghai has the reputation of having most Starbucks, Mannel, Arabica stores.

D．Qn weekdays, no coffee is served in any of the stores above after 9 p.m.

6 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Mini-Biographies Help Clinicians Connect with Patients

Bog Hall was recovering from yet another surgery in March 2014 when a volunteer walked into his hospital room.

The volunteer wasn't there to check on his lungs or breathing. Instead, she asked Hall     1     he wanted to tell his life story.

The interview was part of a program     2    （call）My Life, My Story. Volunteer writers seek out veterans（老兵）at the hospital like Hall, and ask them all about their lives. Then they write up a thousand-word biography, and go over it with the patient,     3    can add more details or correct any mistakes.

When the story is finished, it     4    （attach）to the patient's electronic record, where a doctor or nurse     5    （work）anywhere in the Veterans Affairs medical system can read it.

Today more than 2,000 patients at the Madison VA     6    （share）their life stories.

Project organizers say it could change the way providers interact with patients.     7     clinicians can access a lot of medical data through a patient's electronic medical record,   there's nowhere to learn about a patients' personality or learn about his career, passion or values, said Thor Ringler, who has managed the My Life, My Story project     8    2013.

    9    idea for My Life, My Story came from Dr. Elliot Lee, a medical resident who was doing a training programme at the Madison VA in 2012. The typical programme for medical residents lasts only about a year, so Lee wanted to find a way to bring new, young doctors up to speed on the VA patients. He wanted a way for them     10    （absorb）not just their health histories, but more personal pieces of knowledge.

8 . Gone are the days when big businesses were looked upon by environmentalists as enemies in the fight against global warming.

Just two weeks after U. S. President Donald Trump pulled his country out of the Paris Climate Agreement, more than 900 American firms put their _______to a “We Are Still In” open letter to the United Nations. Together, they promise to help reduce America’s carbon emissions by 26 percent by 2025, _______the Paris Climate Agreement.

_______, big businesses have been taking climate change seriously for years now. Alongside energy-efficiency measures, the strongest evidence of their _______has been the number of new wind and solar projects that they have been helping to build around the world. IT firms such as Amazon and Google have been using clean energy to power their servers (服务器). Some environmentalists now believe that big businesses could become strong _______behind the worldwide spread of renewable energy. “There used to be little action,” says Marty Spitzer of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), “Now, I see fundamental _______being made.”

More recently, this enthusiasm for environmental protection has _______from corporate headquarters to branches and suppliers, and from developed countries to emerging markets. Take Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, for example. In March 2016, it said that it would require its own operations and those along its _______chain to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by one billion tons by 2030. This is _______to taking 211 million passenger cars off America’s roads for a year. The announcement was ________by the WWF and other conservation organizations, which are helping Walmart’s suppliers work towards this goal. Apple, maker of the iPhone, has said that seven of its biggest global manufacturers have promised to power their Apple-related ________with renewable energy by the end of this year.

According to the WWF, in the United States alone, nearly two dozen of the biggest firms have committed themselves to becoming 100 percent renewable in the near future. Hervé Touati of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a clean-energy research firm, explains the ________behind this trend. Going green improves the companies’ public image and helps attract customers, staff and investors.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s biggest brewer (啤酒公司), has lots of young people among its many ________. Many of them take environmental issues seriously. Electricity, used ________in the brewing process, amounts to a tenth of its total costs. Last year, the company set out to increase the role of renewables in generating ________to 100 percent by 2025. “My generation often takes energy and clean air for granted,” said Tony Milikin, the firm’s chief sustainability officer. “The generation coming up now looks at it totally differently.”

1.

A．posters

B．innovations

C．names

D．donations

2.

A．for fear of

B．by means of

C．in line with

D．on account of

3.

A．In fact

B．On average

C．By contrast

D．In addition

4.

A．assessment

B．commitment

C．argument

D．attachment

5.

A．predictors

B．features

C．cases

D．forces

6.

A．changes

B．profits

C．mistakes

D．differences

7.

A．transferred

B．ranged

C．processed

D．extended

8.

A．food

B．store

C．supply

D．data

9.

A．opposite

B．equivalent

C．accustomed

D．second

10.

A．criticized

B．issued

C．welcomed

D．underlined

11.

A．content

B．accounts

C．activities

D．production

12.

A．inspirations

B．motivations

C．destinations

D．functions

13.

A．manufacturers

B．investors

C．customers

D．administrators

14.

A．considerably

B．skillfully

C．economically

D．occasionally

15.

A．heat

B．wind

C．water

D．power