1 . No one can resist the temptation (诱惑) of snacks. But at the same time, you may be underestimating how many calories a snack contains. What would happen if you had a bag of crisps (炸薯片) a day? Eating an extra packet of crisps a day could lead to a weight gain of 6. 35 kg after a year, The Times reported.

People underestimate the number of calories in their snacks, with experts warning that eating a bag of crisps every day could lead to a stone of weight gain in a year. A survey of around 2 ,000 adults found that about three quarters underestimated the impact of what a small reduction could have. One in ten believed that cutting 200 calories a day would not affect weight. At the same time, many people didn’t seem to know exactly how many calories were in their snacks. When it came to snacks, people struggled, with 95 percent guessing that half a sharing bag of tortilla chips had 214 calories on average, almost half the true figure of 447.

Can’t we resist buying snacks? The food environment is to blame. Even though we all know snacking is bad for our health, we can’t help but fill our shopping carts with snacks.Don’t always blame yourself for poor self- control, and supermarket shelves also have to carry this “pot” half.

Hugo Harper, head of Nesta’s health team, said the pressure to resist high-calorie snacks should not be put on consumers and that our food environment needed. to be changed, He said,“Our environment has a real impact on what we eat, from advertisements and supermarket promotions to what ‘s available in our local corner shops.

Hugo added,“If we had fewer cues to snacks, or were pushed to buy fewer high calorie snacks, we should be able to see real change.”New rules coming into force next month will restrict promotions on foods high in fat, sugar and salt in big shops.

1. What does the author intend to do in paragraph 1?

A．List some reasons.	B．Introduce the topic.
C．Put up an argument.	D．Raise a question.

2. What can we know from the survey?

A．One in ten people cut 200 calories a day.

B．Many people knew how many snacks they ate.

C．No one knew the calories the snacks contained.

D．Most people lacked the awareness of snacks’ impact.

3. What may cause people to buy more snacks according to the text?

A．The food environment.	B．Living conditions.
C．Consumption ability.	D．Supermarket management.

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

A．A packet of crisps contains many calories

B．People can resist the temptation of snacks

C．The harm of snacks is beyond your imagination

D．2,000 adults got involved in a consumption survey

2 . I’m retiring from teaching and will enjoy family life with my wife and grandchildren. Recalling my teaching career, I have a lot to share, but one thing is for sure: Teachers learn just as much from students as students learn from teachers. Here are a few of the things I have learned in my job.

Roger was physically and mentally delayed. About once a month, we would have a dance in our classroom. Roger was awkward and ashamed when it came to asking a girl to dance with him. But once, I noticed that Roger was slow dancing with Leah, one of the most popular girls in the class.He had the biggest smile on his face. The next day, when Roger left my classroom to work with his support teacher, I praised Leah for inviting Roger to dance. That simple act of including him in a slow dance was such a great move. At our next dance, Roger asked Leah and every girl in the class to dance. No one turned him down. Leah taught me about the kindness of a simple act and its great effect.

It was Serena who showed us what bravery was about. Serena was our play’s narrator (旁白员). She was scared she would forget her lines. “If you do,” I advised, “pause, stare at the audience and take time to remember. The audience will think it’s part of the play.” Halfway through the opening night, Serena forgot her lines. She stared out at the 300 people gathered in the gym. After what seemed like forever, Serena remembered. After the performance, she burst into tears backstage, thinking she had let everybody down. When our principal came back to congratulate our cast, she turned to Serena and said her pause worked so well. Little did she know about Serena’s little act of bravery.

Teachers spend hours making lessons to teach skills and knowledge. We adjust lessons, keep the good and throw out the bad. A good teacher listens to and learns from students and often it has nothing to do with the curriculum.

1. How did Roger feel in the class dance at first?

A．Embarrassed.

B．Surprised.

C．Confident.

D．Delighted.

2. Which of the following words can best describe Leah?

A．Creative and funny.	B．Clever and brave.
C．Humorous and patient.	D．Kind and likeable.

3. Why did Serena cry after the performance?

A．She felt she had disappointed others.

B．She was praised for her good performance.

C．She was blamed for saying the wrong lines.

D．She was extremely happy she had finished the task.

4. What does the author want to express in this passage?

A．He is proud of being a teacher.

B．Students should be kind and brave.

C．He is unwilling to retire from teaching.

D．Teachers should also learn from students.

3 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Aunt Evie had a dollhouse. It had many toys there. Every Friday afternoon, I went to Aunt Evie’s home with my parents. The adults would sit around a table in the dining room, eating pie and talking, while I played in the dollhouse for hours.

Sometimes I would pick up these lovely toys and place them in different positions. It was really fun. One time I asked Aunt Evie where she got the toys so that I could buy some, too. To my disappointment, Aunt Evie said that most of them were specially handmade gifts from her friends and couldn’t be bought anywhere. One such toy was a little bear, which was my favorite. It was so beautiful that I wanted to own it badly. “If I take it, Aunt Evie may not notice it. ” I said to myself.

Therefore, on a Friday afternoon, I attempted to take the little bear away from Aunt Evie’s dollhouse. I had to wait until nobody was watching me, ‘and it took me hours to get the courage to put the little bear in my pocket. Once I got the little bear, I couldn’t wait to go home. I had to hide it somewhere at home, so that no one would know I took it. That night after I went home with my parents, I couldn’t go to sleep. “What a bad person I am! I stole something from my loved Aunt Evie.” I thought. When I woke up the next morning, I felt awful, but I couldn’t tell my parents, let alone return the little bear to Aunt Evie. I was embarrassed about my behavior. At some point, I started to hate the little bear and myself. And I knew if I didn’t do something, I wouldn’t get away from those bad feelings.

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So I decided to tell my mom what I had done.
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My hand was shaking when I rang the doorbell of Aunt Evie’s house.
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4 . VARK is a questionnaire that helps with your learning by suggesting the strategies you should be using. According to VARK, some people learn best by reading materials, while others are more visually-oriented (视觉导向的) and must see something to understand. Others might fall into the auditory learning subtype, meaning they tend to urderstand materials by listening to instructions. There are also kinesthetic (动觉的) learners, or those who learn best through hands-on activities.

Learning style theories had their popularity in the 1990s, when Beth Rogowsky was just starting as a middle school teacher. “At that time, when my students were given some learning material, if they disliked reading it, they could listen to it instead as long as they’d like to listen to others reading it; whatever they preferred, they would be encouraged to do it,” says Rogowsky, who is now an associate professor of teaching and learning at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania.

But when it comes to preferred learning styles, there’s a problem. The idea of using learning styles emerged in the 1980s as many researchers voiced their support, but few actually tested their concepts to confirm the validity in randomized, experimental settings. In the 2000s, when researchers started to do just that, they found little evidence that matching students to their supposed learning style helped them memorize information better.

Rogowsky herself has confirmed the belief that learning styles don’t hold up in her recent studies. In one study published in Frontiers in Psychology this year, Rogowsky and her colleagues tested fifth-graders with preferred auditory and visual learning styles. Students were given standardized reading tests, in both written and audio formats. The team didn’t uncover a relationship between their preferred learning styles and academic performance, according to Rogowsky.

The team’s study noted that a preference to learn material using a certain method could mask skill lack. “Someone who prefers to lean by listening instead of visual approaches might just have underdeveloped reading skills. Letting students learn in their preferred manner doesn’t push them to improve weaker skill sets,” Rogowsky says. “If you need to improve your skills, don’t just keep doing what’s easy to you.”

1. What’s the purpose of Paragraph 1?

A．To explain the complexity of the learning process.

B．To inspire people to actively engage in a questionnaire.

C．To show different people have different learning styles.

D．To suggest using VARK to choose efficient learning styles.

2. What did Beth Rogowsky use to do when she was a middle school teacher?

A．Encourage students to learn creatively.

B．Allow students to use their preferred learning style.

C．Help students improve their reading and listening ability.

D．Provide varied reading materials for students to choose from.

3. What does the underlined word “validity” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Correctness.

B．Faulty.

C．Arrangement.

D．Budget.

4. What can we learn from Beth Rogowsky’s words in the last paragraph?

A．Students need to focus on their academic performance.

B．Students should stick to their favorite learning materials.

C．Students hiding skill lack can boost their confidence

D．Students should go beyond a certain preferred learning style.

5 . I remember to this day the feeling of the cold wind causing my ears to hurt. However, that didn’t _________ me at this time. It was Hogmanay and the bays of the town were carrying out the _________ of going from house to house on this special evening.

It is thought that the tradition came from the Vikings who were settlers in the Western Isles. Honestly, that wasn’t _________ to me. I was out and about having _________.

There were about 25 houses to visit in my town of North Boisdale. The start time was 19:00 and all the boys would _________ at one end of the town and begin to _________ each house. Each person had a pillowcase (枕头套) that would be filled with goodies (好吃的东西) _________ from householders.

Outside each house one person would ask the man of the house for permission (许可) to _________. Once inside the house a candle would be lit by the oldest boy in the group and _________ the candle would be passed round all family members. After that, the mother of the house would bring out the __________. Fruit, biscuits and of course sweets. On __________ each house the oldest boy in the group would __________ the family luck in the coming year.

After being to each house the pillowcases would be __________ and heavy and it was at the last house that the fun began. The pillowcases would be __________ and the goodies shared out equally.

The last house would also provide a small party that would, __________ before midnight so all the boys were home before the bells.

1.

A．trouble

B．interest

C．fit

D．harm

2.

A．test

B．service

C．tradition

D．program

3.

A．new

B．possible

C．wise

D．important

4.

A．success

B．experience

C．fun

D．help

5.

A．show off

B．look around

C．run away

D．meet up

6.

A．visit

B．clean

C．find

D．fill

7.

A．bought

B．received

C．stolen

D．sent

8.

A．enter

B．shout

C．hide

D．stop

9.

A．still

B．again

C．even

D．then

10.

A．bags

B．gifts

C．pictures

D．candles

11.

A．searching

B．leaving

C．painting

D．protecting

12.

A．give

B．remind

C．lend

D．wish

13.

A．safe

B．full

C．warm

D．open

14.

A．discovered

B．remembered

C．emptied

D．accepted

15.

A．begin

B．finish

C．continue

D．change

6 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

What my father wore embarrassed me! I wanted him to dress like a doctor or lawyer, but he always dressed like my father, getting up before dawn every day to make breakfast for my mother and me.

We lived in South Texas, where my father worked as a repairman. He often wore a pair of jeans and a shirt, keeping his pencils, glasses and wrenches (扳手) in his breast pocket. His boots were those with steel toes that made them difficult to pull off his feet, which I sometimes helped him with when he returned from repairing cars — his job that also shamed me.

I blamed the way he dressed. I felt that my classmates laughed at me because they’d seen him mowing lawns (修剪草坪) in cut-off jeans and black boots. My classmates’ families paid men to beautify their lawns, while their fathers travelled in the bay wearing lemon-yellow sweaters and expensive shoes.

He preferred clothes that allowed him the freedom to move under cars. So even when taking part in a school trip with me, he was dressed in his repairman’s suit. On the school bus to the campsite, all students on the bus happily chatted with their parents except me, who lowered the head, avoiding spotting my classmates’ mocking glance (讥笑的眼光) or hearing their jokes, which I thought was about nothing else but what my father wore.

I regretted telling my parents the school trip, and I was very angry why my mother had no spare time while my father happened to have a vacation. But my father failed to read my mind. He was very happy, whistling a tune along the way.

Though my father didn’t sense my bad mood, the school bus seemed as sad as I was. It drove more and more slowly and finally it stopped on the roadside. The driver got out to check the bus but found nothing wrong. Students and parents on the bus began to whisper about what was happening, worried that the delay might spoil the journey.

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When others were complaining, my father stood up.

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The school bus restarted and everyone cheered.

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7 . After bringing up three children, Barthorpe decided to do something for herself. She planned to _________ herself by learning to ride a motorcycle at the age of 60. After passing her driving test, she soon _________ on her first solo (单独的) ride. She remembered the _________ of being on the road alone for the first time.

Although Barthorpe preferred riding solo, she contacted the Women’s International Motorcycle Association (WIMA) in the hope of _________ it. It was the connection with the WIMA that led her to a(n) _________ — the Women Riders World Relay. The plan was to pass a baton (接力棒), rider to rider, all around the world. That was a test of the riders’ courage and _________. But just after Barthorpe took on the role, she _________ fell down and got injured. She spent several months in hospital. However, Barthorpe didn’t see it as a _________ experience. She knew that she must pay much attention to _________ first. Getting on a motoreycle again was ____________, but Barthorpe took extra training and ____________ a lot. And she pushed herself to take part in the race in Australia. Barthorpe then realized that it was normal to ____________ and rise to it, which offered an opportunity to grow.

What attracts Barthorpe most to a motorcycle is the ____________. “I can go anywhere I want and any time I like,” she said. “The kids said to me, ‘Mum, you seem to have turned into a ____________ teenager.’ I just told them, ‘No, I’ve just found the field where I can see my ____________.’”

1.

A．protect

B．express

C．challenge

D．educate

2.

A．set out

B．caught up

C．calmed down

D．showed off

3.

A．duty

B．excitement

C．risk

D．struggle

4.

A．interviewing

B．encouraging

C．impressing

D．joining

5.

A．lesson

B．record

C．adventure

D．experiment

6.

A．teamwork

B．friendship

C．understanding

D．memory

7.

A．slowly

B．strangely

C．purposely

D．accidentally

8.

A．discouraging

B．common

C．practical

D．pleasant

9.

A．honor

B．safety

C．experience

D．interest

10.

A．doubtful

B．peaceful

C．stressful

D．meaningful

11.

A．lost

B．expected

C．noticed

D．improved

12.

A．fail

B．recover

C．wait

D．reply

13.

A．performance

B．competition

C．freedom

D．independence

14.

A．careful

B．friendly

C．serious

D．brave

15.

A．choice

B．value

C．habit

D．effort

8 . The Health Benefits of Music

Music can have a big impact on your mental health.     1     But it can actually do more than just change your state of mind—music has an impact on you physically, too. Here are just a few of the transformative effects of music on your health!

It improves the cardiovascular (心血管的) health. Good music may just help your heart to be healthier.     2     One study found that music reduced the levels of the stress hormone cortisol in people’s systems, and reduced blood pressure.

    3     If you’re looking to take your exercise performance to the next level you may want to consider doing it with the help of music. Studies have found listening to music as you exercise improves endurance, productivity, power, and strength. If you’ve ever wondered why professional athletes don’t listen to music during a race, it’s because they aren’t allowed to— for this very reason!

It boosts your immune system. With cold and flu season on the horizon, you may want to make sure you’ve got all your favorite songs downloaded.     4    

It helps you sleep better.     5     A study showed that students who listened to relaxing classical music for 45 minutes before turning in slept significantly better than before. If you’re having trouble sleeping, try listening to a little soft music before bedtime.

It’s safe to say the next time you need a little pick-me-up, turning on your favorite tune is the smartest option—and the healthiest, too!

A．It enhances your performance.

B．It might help improve your creativity.

C．Over 30% of Americans suffer from poor sleep.

D．There has been a link found between heart health and classical music.

E．It can make you relaxed, increase your focus and help you deal with stress.

F．Some studies have found that music can change how people look at their lives.

G．Studies have found that listening to music helps to prevent infection and illness.

9 . When I was a boy, my parents owned a small grocery store. As I ________ those days, many people come to mind. One such person was Nick.

I still remember the first time I saw him—or perhaps “experienced” him is a more ________ term. The moment he entered the store I could feel a rush of ________ fill the place. Singing at the top of his lungs, Nick made quite a(n) ________.

Nick had great enthusiasm for life. I really admired him for his ability to be completely himself and at ________ with everyone he met and in every situation. For me, his ________ wasn’t really what he did or how he did it, but rather that he was absolutely comfortable simply being himself — a true free spirit. The memory of Nick ________ me of the encouraging phrase, “Dance like no one is ________.”

Countless times I’ve resisted expressing myself simply because I didn’t want to ________ looking silly or foolish. I often ________ my true self behind a wall of insecurity, but respect those who ________ this inhibition (压抑). No ________ this is why I remember Nick so fondly, for he was who he was, and didn’t for a second ________ any of it back. Whether you loved him or hated him, Nick most certainly danced to his own ________ and never apologized for it.

Perhaps someday I, too, will have the courage and confidence to ________ the steps to that dance.

1.

A．keep track of

B．make use of

C．think back to

D．come down to

2.

A．academic

B．appropriate

C．abstract

D．advanced

3.

A．wind

B．fear

C．smell

D．energy

4.

A．entrance

B．exit

C．fortune

D．mistake

5.

A．war

B．sea

C．odds

D．ease

6.

A．appearance

B．credit

C．appeal

D．achievement

7.

A．informs

B．relieves

C．reminds

D．warns

8.

A．watching

B．singing

C．thinking

D．hearing

9.

A．mean

B．risk

C．allow

D．avoid

10.

A．display

B．hide

C．expose

D．enjoy

11.

A．lack

B．have

C．exhibit

D．bear

12.

A．idea

B．way

C．doubt

D．excuse

13.

A．pay

B．give

C．take

D．hold

14.

A．role

B．style

C．tune

D．way

15.

A．recognize

B．learn

C．praise

D．remember

10 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Zu Ti of the Jin Dynasty was a man who had with great ambition. When he was young, he had a good friend     1     (name) Liu Kun. They had such a deep friendship     2     they stayed together every day and got up at the same time every morning.

One day, when they were sleeping. Zu Ti heard the rooster crowing (鸡鸣) . He woke up Liu Kun and said, “How about     3     (get) up to play swords (剑) as soon as we heard the rooster crowing from now on?” Liu Kun was still     4     (sleep) . But he agreed with him     5     (joyful) . From then on, they got up and played swords once the rooster began crowing. They kept their word and never gave up no matter     6     cold in winter or hot in summer. Hard work     7     (pay) off. After a long period of hard study and training, they finally became the all-rounder. And they both did excellent jobs to their country.

The idiom “to rise with the rooster” teaches us that with ambition and hard work,     8     (succeed) is possible. When we can discover our shortcomings     9     time, it is not too late to try. But if you are not willing     10     (work) hard, you will not be able to achieve a career after all.