1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why did the man call the woman?

A．He wanted the store to give him a refund.	B．He has doubts about the furniture delivered.
C．He had to change the delivery time.	D．He wanted to order some other furniture.

2. What did the woman ask the man to do?

A．Send the furniture back to the store.	B．Buy another brand of furniture.
C．Collect the furniture he ordered.	D．Describe the furniture he received.

3. What did the woman promise to do for the man?

A．Check the bill.	B．Apologize to his wife.
C．Replace the chairs.	D．Give the money back.

4. What did the woman do at the end of the conversation?

A．She recommended a new style.	B．She greeted the man’s children.
C．She offered some gifts to the man.	D．She apologized to the man once more.

2 . What does the man mean?

A．He will be back soon to repair the computer.

B．It will take longer to reconnect the computer to the net.

C．He has solved more complicated problems than this.

D．A lot of problems will be solved online tomorrow.

3 . What does the man ask the woman about?

A．Why her phone was disconnected.	B．Why he could not get through to her.
C．Why she didn’t leave him a message.	D．Why she refused to answer his call.

4 . What do we learn about Mr. Black from the conversation?

A．He found his wallet in his car.	B．He went to the lost-and-found office.
C．He asked the woman to pick up his car.	D．He left his wallet with his car in the garage.

5 . What do we learn from the conversation?

A．The class has kept the party a secret from Jack.

B．Jack is organizing a party for the English teacher.

C．Jack is surprised to learn of the party for him.

D．Teachers will come to Jack’s birthday party.

6 . Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.

Love from the Apple Tree

Once upon a time, there used to be a tall and big apple tree. A little boy, every day to the tree down, climbed up     1     (pick) apples to eat, and slept in the shade of the tree. He loved the apple tree, and it loved to play with him. The little boy gradually grew up and stopped     2     (come) to play every day. One day he came to the tree, picked all the apples and left happily. Another day, the boy came again, and cut off all the branches, happily away to build a house himself. One summer, the boy came back, cut down her tree trunk, built a boat,     3     (sail) away, and did not come back for a long time. After years, the boy returned at last. He was old and wanted     4     more than a place to rest. “Old root is     5     (suitable) to sit down and rest, come on, sit down and rest with me!” The boy sat down, and the apple tree was so happy that it shed tears.

This is a story of everyone. The tree is like our parent.     6     we are young, we love to play with Mom and Dad. Having grown up, we leave them, and only come to them when we need something or when we are in trouble. No matter what, parents will always be there and give everything they     7     to make you happy.

    8     your parents can give you is not necessarily the best in the world, but they will try their best to give you all, and they are afraid that it is not enough; maybe they never said “I love you”, but love you in their own way for a lifetime,     9     is how most parents around the world show their love. For example, a tired father was watching his two daughters eat fried chicken, but he didn’t order anything, telling his daughters that he was not hungry,     10     more money in his pocket. We grow up to know that the world’s most affectionate lie is what the father and mother said: I do not love to cat it and I am not hungry.

7 . Engaging in Family Meals

Engaging in family meals may be a matter of improving communication and support at home. A new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, published by Elsevier, connects less family discouragement and better family communication with a higher likelihood to eat evening family meals and family breakfasts together, and not in front of a television. The researchers surveyed 259 patients who participated in weight management and weight loss programs at the Ohio State University or Wake Forest University.     1    

“It’s important to note all family members in the home have influence,” lead study author Keeley J. Pratt, PhD, the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, said of the findings that any family member can influence the adoption and maintenance of healthy patterns and behaviors in the home.     2     The study also found parents who perceived their child to be overweight were more than four times as likely to talk to them about the kid’s weight, also called “weight talk.”

“While open communication with children about health is beneficial, it’s important to ensure communication directly about children’s weight is not harmful in their development of a healthy body image and behaviors. That includes older children and adolescents who are at greater risk of developing eating disorders and disordered eating behaviors,” Professor Pratt said.     3     Families with younger children, regardless of gender, were more likely to eat family dinners and breakfasts together, and parents of older children were more likely to talk about their own weight with the child. As kids grow up, the relationship between kids and their parents becomes better.

    4     “Understanding these associations will provide essential evidence needed to design future family-based interventions for these patients to help in their behavior change and weight loss, prevent the beginning of obesity in children, and enhance positive family meal practices and healthy communication about weight,” Professor Pratt said.

A．The study shows parents of older children were more likely to talk about their own weight with the child.

B．They found parents with better family communication were more likely to participate in family meals.

C．There was no significant difference between male and female children in this study.

D．This was the first study specifically to examine the home eating habits of adult patients.

E．Previous study has shown parental obesity (肥胖) is the strongest risk for children’s obesity.

F．Someone has no power to influence the family, but they are influencing each other.

8 . Adjusting to a new sleep schedule at the start of the school year can lead to disturbed rest, daytime tiredness and changes in mood and focus for teens. Although they need eight to ten hours of sleep per night to maintain physical health, emotional well-being and school performance, according to the National Sleep Foundation, most adolescents get less than eight.

Newly published research from RUSH in the journal SLEEP reveals how adolescents can get more shut-eye. “There are a lot of changes a teen goes through,” said Stephanie J. Crowley, PhD. “One specifically is a change to sleep biology that happens during adolescence.” Crowley said, “there are two competing forces: one to go to bed earlier for the school schedule and the other a biological change that happens naturally to a teen’s body.” Because of this complex conflict, RUSH researchers set out to test a two-week intervention that targets the circadian(昼夜节律的) system with different behavioral measures and tries to help the teens figure out a better nighttime routine.

To solve teen sleep shortage, the researchers used bright light therapy on two weekend mornings for a total of 2.5 hours. The bright light helps the internal clock to wake up a little earlier. This shift should make it easier for the teens to fall asleep at an appropriate time. Crowley and her team then helped them make up for sleep problems by providing time management tools and addressing barriers to an earlier bedtime, like limiting certain after-school activities.

Researchers were able to shift the teens’ bedtime by an hour and a half earlier, and their total sleep time increased by approximately an hour. “The interesting thing is that teens with late circadian clocks shifted by up to two hours earlier,” Crowley said. “And the teens who had an earlier circadian clock didn’t need to be shifted any earlier. They just needed the behavioral support of trying to manage their time in the evening and increase their sleep duration.” The researchers also found the teens in the intervention group were less tired, and less angry, and they exhibited better concentration. The students’ morning attention improved as well.

1. According to the author, what’s the major sleeping problem in teens?

A．Most teens’ circadian clocks have changed.

B．Most teens get less than eight hours of sleep.

C．Too much sleep affects teens’ academic performance.

D．Teens have to get more sleep in order to go to school.

2. What’s the author’s purpose of mentioning two competing forces?

A．To highlight the importance of circadian clock changes in teens.

B．To emphasize the significance of teens’ night-time routine.

C．To show the conflict between sleeping early and not wanting to sleep.

D．To build connection between sleeping earlier and rising earlier.

3. What can we learn about the bright light therapy?

A．It makes teens go through many different changes.

B．It makes teens without enough sleep concentrate on their study.

C．It helps teens go to bed three hours earlier every day.

D．It does help teens develop good sleep patterns.

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Teens’ Sleeping Time	B．Helping Teens Get More Sleep
C．Experiment on Teens’ Behavior	D．Improving Teens’ Concentration

9 . 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.

Big Sister’s Wedding

Three days before the wedding, Grand Aunt personally entrusted a special small package for Aunt Baba to hand to Big Sister. On     1     (open) the elegant leather case in Aunt Baba’s room, Big Sister found a lovely pendant (吊坠) made of ancient green jade hanging on a heavy gold chain. She immediately put it on and breathed with pleasure while she admired     2     in the mirror. Then she begged Aunt Baba and me not to mention Grand Aunt’s gift to a soul, obviously intending to keep the pendant     3     telling Niang.

The wedding was a formal and brilliant affair with a ceremonial dinner party for five hundred in the grand ballroom on the ninth floor of the Cathay Hotel,     4     (situate) at the border of the Bund and fashionable Nanjing Road and overlooking the Huangpu River. The room     5     (fill) with masses of fresh flowers, and the Chinese character for double happiness was outlined in red blooms against the wall. Big Sister was elegantly dressed in a beautiful pink Qipao and silver shoes     6     Samuel wore a tuxedo (燕尾服). Two professional radio comedians acted as masters of ceremonies.

I had nothing to wear but an old pink Qipao     7     had been handed down by Big Sister when she grew out of it.     8     I didn’t look particularly nice, at least I didn’t stand out and no one noticed me. My three older brothers, however, were having a horrible time. For this special occasion, Father ordered them     9     (have) fresh hair-cuts. My brothers’ heads were shaved cleanly, so not a trace of hair     10     (remain). They were wearing dark-blue, traditional, long Chinese clothes with high collars and cloth buttons. I thought the brothers would make a lot of unexpected things on the Big Sister’s wedding.

10 . Self-control may be the secret to success, according to a persuasive new study that followed 1,000 children from birth to age 32. Children who showed early signs of self-control were not only less likely to have developed addictions or to have committed a crime by adulthood, but were also healthier and _________ than their more impulsive peers.

For the new study, called the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, researchers led by Duke University psychologist Terrie Moffitt followed 1,000 children in New Zealand for more than three decades.

In previous research, researchers found that _________ and out-of-control behavior were more common in children who had experienced loss or violence. If children have bad experiences, the _________ may affect the proper development of the frontal cortex (前额叶) in children’s brains, which is responsible for self-control. If children have lower self-control, they will have a(n) _________ time in school. They won’t learn as efficiently and they are more likely to act out because of their frustrations, which means the potential for more _________ problems and, in later life, the potential for legal problems.

Although Moffitt’s study found some “concentration of low self-control children in homes with low income,” the author says, “The link was _________. There were plenty of well-to-do children with very low self-control.” _________, poor children who scored best on measures of self-control were more likely than others to become wealthy in later life. “One _________ of the findings is that children with high self-control who began life in low-income homes ended up as adults with higher incomes,” says Moffitt.

_________, the period of time in which many of the mistakes in self-discipline would potentially lead to the worst life outcomes occurred during the teenage years. Teens who had scored lowest in measures of __________ in early childhood were the most likely to make mistakes in the first place. And even those low self-control teens who managed to __________ smoking, alcohol or other drug-related problems, and who stayed in school, still did worse later in life than their more disciplined peers. This suggests that there might be a better __________ on investment from early childhood interventions.

“Trial and error is a __________ part of teenage life”，says Moffitt, “But teens with good self-control __________ trial and error more strategically, and they understand the difference between a useful learning experiment and real danger. I am convinced that teenagers can be taught to recognize this __________.”

1.

A．prettier

B．wealthier

C．cleverer

D．freer

2.

A．impulsiveness

B．interruption

C．miscomprehension

D．addiction

3.

A．anger

B．environment

C．confusion

D．misery

4.

A．unexpected

B．hard

C．important

D．happy

5.

A．cultural

B．financial

C．physical

D．social

6.

A．strong

B．stable

C．weak

D．flexible

7.

A．For example

B．Without doubt

C．After all

D．In fact

8.

A．interpretation

B．precondition

C．outcome

D．significance

9.

A．Fortunately

B．Contrarily

C．Unsurprisingly

D．Doubtfully

10.

A．self-education

B．self-control

C．self-deception

D．self-negation

11.

A．forget

B．miss

C．ban

D．avoid

12.

A．effect

B．expectation

C．restriction

D．return

13.

A．rare

B．spiritual

C．healthy

D．feasible

14.

A．look for

B．engage in

C．go over

D．apply to

15.

A．ambition

B．distinction

C．evolution

D．suggestion