1 . Directions:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A.Regularly     B.factors   C.smooth       D.inner          E.wrists       F.hurtful G.prevention   H.affect   I.effectively     J.maintained        K.determined

This is the best bedtime to avoid heart disease

The time you go to bed may have something to do with your risk for heart disease. In fact, researchers say, there is a heart health sweet spot for falling asleep: from 10 to 11 p.m.

The body has a 24-hour    1    clock that helps regulate physical and mental functioning. “Our study suggests that early or late bedtimes may be more likely to disturb the body clock, with    2    consequences for cardiovascular (心血管的) health,“ said Plans, who is a senior lecturer in the University of Exeter in the U. K.

To explore how different bedtimes might     3     heart health, Plans and colleagues at Huma, turned to UK Biobank, a biomedical database (数据库). UK Biobank    4     information about more than 500, 000 volunteers and provided information about their personal information, lifestyles and health. Their physical health records were also evaluated.

The researchers focused on 88,926 adults, average age 61, who wore devices that record data when a person moves on their    5     for seven days. With the devices data, the researchers     6    the times of sleep start and waking.

During an average follow-up period of 5.7 years, 3,172 of the people on the list (3.6 percent) experienced cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks or heart failure-happening was highest among people with sleep times at midnight or later and lowest among those who fell asleep from 10 to10: 59 p.m.

Even when a number of    7     were taken into account —including age, gender,   sleep duration, being an early bird or night owl, smoking status, blood pressure—falling asleep    8    at midnight or later was still linked to the highest increased risk of heart disease.

“The new study really strengthens what we know from a cardiovascular risk    9    opinion—sleep is a risk factor,” said Dr. Francoise Marvel, an assistant professor and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Digital Health Lab at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. “But there is a huge important gap to recognize: There is no evidence to suggest at this point that improving sleep will    10    reduce cardiovascular events, like heart attack.”

2 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. necessarily     B. fade     C. survive     D. expectation     E. harsh     F. treasure    G. quantity     H. dramatically     I. comfort     J. relate     K. reflect

Things I’ve Learned From My First Year Of High School

I just finished my first year of high school, and it has been     1     different from middle school. High school has brought me so many different experiences. Some I am grateful for, yet some have not been beneficial. However, all of them have taught me so many different things, and I would not have been able to     2     my first year of high school without them. The things I have learned have been so helpful to me and can also     3     to things outside of school.

1. You’re expected to demonstrate maturity and responsibility

High school teachers won’t     4     “hold your hand” as much as middle school teachers did. Your teachers may move faster through lessons. When you have questions or meet with     5     challenges, it’s important to speak up. If speaking up makes you nervous at first, you can start by using email to build your     6     level and confidence.

High school teachers enforce higher standards, and most don’t tolerate some of the behaviors that were acceptable in middle school. Again, the goal is to prepare you for college and real life. Even if the     7     seems tough at first, remember that you’re learning helpful and important life skills.

2. Find out who your true friends are

Genuine friends are friends that you can tell everything to and they will not tell anyone else without your permission. They are also there whenever you need them, whether that is to rant or you just need a shoulder to cry on. When you find your true friends, stick with them. The thing about friends is: quality over     8    .

To be honest, high school is not easy at first, but with time, you will get to appreciate and     9     everything around your experiences. The memory will never     10    , because it is the most memorable journey. I have learned so much during my first year of high school, and I am sure that I am going to learn a lot more.

3 . 用方框中所给词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯(每个单词限用一次)

you   work   be   high   though   imagine   price   dream   towards     once

As a child, I would spend hours dreaming about my future. I imagined having a beautiful home. I also    1    of being a teacher, pianist or world traveler. Dreaming encouraged me to set goals and learn new skills like painting, knitting and cooking. When I dreamed, I realized the chances in life    2     endless.

A dream is something that you    3    might happen. Once you have a dream, you can create a goal. A goal is something that you can work    4    in the future. Goals turn dreams into reality.

Perhaps you want to change something about    5    . Maybe you want to lose weight, exercise more every week or earn    6    grades. You may want to read 10 books this year or travel to another country. These are specific goals.

    7    you have a goal, create a strategy that will help you reach that goal. Dreams are free. But goals have a     8    . You must spend time, money and effort to reach them. If you want to learn an instrument, then you must take lessons and practice. It is not always easy, but your hard    9    will pay off.

Finally, don’t give up your goals. At times, you may get discouraged     10    . Work hard and you can reach your goals!

4 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. personal        B. insecurities        C. moments       D. admit       E. follow       F. good             G. grow             H. issues       I. right       J. crucial       K. activities

How I Tricked Myself into Enjoying Healthier Foods and Exercise

Most of us would like to think that when we reach a certain age or point in our careers, we automatically evolve past the point of worrying about our appearance. Body image and self-confidence, or our lack of confidence, is something that we never really talk about for fear of drawing attention to our     1    .

But the truth is that our body image issues affect us more than we’d like to     2    . Over the last eight years I’ve worked hard to     3     my business. My main focus has been my work—writing books, creating products, launching products, growing my team—and I’ve dedicated long hours to my company’s success. My diligence has definitely paid off and my business is thriving, but all of that hustling has come at a(n)     4     cost. I’ve spent long hours at the computer and little time exercising or eating     5    . I tried to ignore it and I told myself that no one noticed, but my weight steadily crept up.

As a result, my confidence slowly decreased, and I retreated from the     6     —both personal and professional—that I loved. I stopped going out with friends, stopped sharing photos of myself on social media and avoided media interviews. Even if I didn’t want to admit it, I knew that the underlying problem was that I just didn’t feel     7     about myself. I had to make a change. I started by getting clear about my goals, which included getting into the best shape of my life, changing the way I ate and running a 10K on my 40^th birthday. But more importantly, I got honest with myself about why those goals were so     8     and then I asked the people that I trust the most to hold me accountable. From there, I had to make the daily decision to     9     through.

It wasn’t easy. In fact, there were many     10     that were downright painful. But I’m succeeding, and I’m happy to see that I’ve made changes and am now leading a healthier life.

5 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. allowing          B. avoidable   C. briefly       D. part             E. principle     F. research G. increasingly     H. lowest       I. maintain     J. maximum     K. prevent

Walking, if you do it vigorously enough, is the overall best exercise for regular physical activity. It requires no equipment, everyone knows how to do it and it carries the     1     risk of injury. The human body is designed to walk. You can walk in parks or along a river or in your neighborhood. To get     2     benefit from walking, aim for 45 minutes a day, an average of five days a week.

Strength training is another important     3     of physical activity. Its purpose is to build and     4     bone and muscle mass, both of which shrink with age. In general, you will want to do strength training two or three days a week,     5     recovery days between sessions.

Finally, flexibility and balance training are     6     important as the body ages. Aches and pains are high on the list of complaints in old age. The result of constant muscle tension and stiffness of joints is     7     and simple flexibility training can     8     these by making muscles stronger and keeping joints lubricated. Some of this you can do whenever you stretch. If you watch dogs and cats, you’ll get an idea of how natural it is. The general     9     is simple: whenever the body has been in one position for a while, it is good to     10     stretch it in an opposite position.

6 . Directions：Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A.simple   B.heard   C.difficult   D.faster   E.personal   F.shapes   G.goal   H.receive   I.shared   J.come   K.happiness

Everybody has different ways achieving happiness and the reasons for feeling happy may change from year to year, or even from day to day. For example, happiness may     1     from getting a good grade on school assignment or from a very     2     thing like having full stomach. This kind of happiness is inside of you — it is     3     happiness. Happiness is also something you can communicate to other people. The good grade you     4     on your paper will probably make your parents happy and proud. Another way of communicating happiness is to help other people over     5     experiences in their own lives. In this situation, you give off your own happiness to make others happy.

The most important things to remember in your pursuit (追求) of     6     are:

1. Happiness should not be your only     7    — a real goal, like better grades, a better job, or closer friends, is sure to give more happiness than chasing after a feeling.

2. Happiness may come in all sizes and     8    . If you keep your sense of humor and see things in a balanced way, happiness will come to you     9     than to the person who is always worrying about what tomorrow will bring.

3. Happiness is meant to be     10    . “Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone.”

7 . Directions：Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. addition       B. glance        C. confused       D. fit       E. interview F. admitted       G. fascinated     H. guarantee       I. contact     J. nervous     K. prefer

In recent years, many well-known colleges abroad allow you to interview with an admissions representative(招生代表), either on campus or in your hometown.

In university application process, the     1     is of great importance. A     2     at interview tips will tell you to smile, make eye     3    , and shake the interviewer’s hand firmly. Unfortunately, few tell you what it is that the interviewer is really looking for.

Remember that most interviews are won or lost before you ever go into them. I am frequently     4     by that fact that many really smart, diligent students do little research before they go into their interview. So when asked questions, they often feel     5    . You should, for example, be able to find out where your interview—all with just a few minutes of googling.

More importantly, you should do a lot of research on the university in question in     6     to knowing the school’s ranking in The US News and Word Reports. You won’t be     7     when you reply to the question “Why do you want to attend this university?” with the answer “Well, you know that it is a very famous school.” Think of it from the school’s point of view, after all, you want this school to     8     you to just another excellent Chinese student.

Tell them why you would choose them rather than another excellent American university. If you are interested in biology, be sure to know the biology professors’ names. If you are     9     with camping, be sure to know the name of the outdoors club at the school. Find ways to     10     your interests and goals to what that school has to offer in particular.

8 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. remains        B. effective       C. ensure     D. including       E. access     F. last      G. preserved       H. authority       I. damage     J. considered     K. regularly

It is said that museums play an important part in education. Those youngsters who visit museums     1     are likely to get their mind broadened. The list of the reasons might be long. The main factor is that, by attending different exhibitions in the museum, children have     2     to the trace of history and the     3     human civilization. The exhibited items in museums carry rich information,     4     evolution, habitats, industry, art, religion and so on. Educators in     5     sincerely advise that children should be guided to take advantage of museums. They insist that a visit should     6       hours because it takes children some time to watch the items, collect the related information and imagine the site or picture they reflect. Meanwhile, the staff are required to prepare the exhibition carefully to     7     that most visitors are able to enjoy a satisfactory travel there, and the collections and the     8     are under full protection to avoid any possible     9    . Parents and school are to take museums as a/an     10     way to make children taste or study the development of history.

9 . 从表格中选用词汇完成下面的短文。

bonus, guilty, conflict, division, declare, appointment

My niece, Jane, laboured to the maximum for 10 years in a shopping mall and finally she took up an     1     as the chairwoman. She was respected by all the salesmen and saleswomen because she was full of integrity and dignity. She exactly calculated the staff’s salaries and rewarded the best ones with a     2    . Whereas, one salesman, Jack,     3     that he could sell anything by absurd overstatements, such as science fictions, ladders, flour, leathers, levers of various panels, handkerchiefs, nails, lamps and even mud. In his view, he was superior to others, so he had an urge to take over the sales manager. It turned out that he often     4     with others. Then came a rumor that all the staff would resign if Jack wasn’t dismissed, which greatly stunned Jane and even made Jane explode with anger. Jane thought inaction was improper, so she urged Jack to weigh pros and cons. Otherwise, his job would be suspended. Jack felt so     5     of his ridiculous behaviors that tears blurred his eyes. He promised to apologize to all the staff at a meeting on a weekly basis to remove the     6     between him and his colleagues. He would share what he gripped from that day on.

10 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. unwritten   B. respectively   C. staged   D. expressions   E. appreciation F. instances   G. responded   H. unlike   I. constructed   J. initially     K. frequency

Say Thank-You

To better understand how people express gratitude in normal life, anthropologist Simeon Floyd, at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands and his colleagues     1     a large, cross-cultural study covering five continents and eight languages. They included English, Italian, Polish, Russian and Lao, as well as     2     languages such as Cha’ palaa, spoken in Ecuador, Murrinh-Patha, spoken in northern Australia, and Siwu, spoken in Ghana. Both verbal and non-verbal expressions of gratitude, such as a smile or a nod, were regarded as interactions.

Floyd’s team left cameras in household and community settings and captured more than 1,500     3     of social interactions in which one person asked for something and another     4    .

They found that in every culture, people fulfilled requests, but expressions of gratitude, such as saying “thanks” or nodding in     5    , were remarkably rare, occurring just 5.5 percent of the time.

English and Italian speakers had slightly higher rates of gratitude expression—14.5 percent and 13.5 percent of the time,     6    , but still surprisingly low considering how polite Western people think they are, says Floyd. “English speakers are not so     7     other people, and often prefer not to express gratitude in informal contexts,” he says.

Cha’ palaa speakers had the lowest     8     of expressed gratitude, with zero examples in 96 recorded interactions. But this starts to make sense when you learn that the language has no easy way to say “thank you”.

Also surprised by the findings was David Peterson, a linguist (语言学家) who developed the     9     language Dothraki for the TV show Game of Thrones. It too, has no word for thank you, something Peterson     10     considered to be unlikely. “I thought that you had to have a word to express gratitude,” he says.