1 . 选出能填入空白处的最佳选项以匹配对应小标题，选项中有两项为多余选项。
Principles of Running
·Do the right amount.         
·Keep running.         
·Cool down properly.         
① A warm-up gets your blood flowing and prepares your body before you exercise.
② Draw up a training plan that suits you. Make sure you are not running too much so that your heart, muscles and bones don’t get hurt.
③ A thirty-minute run will provide relief from aches or tension that you may be suffering due to stress.
④ Jog slowly for ten minutes after a long run, then walk for five minutes. Such kind of exercise relaxes your body.
⑤ There will be times when you want to give up. But hang in there and tell yourself that it will get easier with time.

A．①④⑤

B．②④⑤

C．②⑤④

D．③⑤④

2 . 阅读下列句子并排序。
① I like reading books of all kinds.
② I have a top 10 reading list and I try to keep it updated.
③ It always makes me excited to work hard and achieve a team goal together.
④ Meanwhile, I’m an active member of my school’s long-distance running team and volunteering club.

A．③②①④

B．①②④③

C．①②③④

D．②①④③

3 . 假定你是光明国际学校的李华，美国某校的师生将到你校访问，学校需要一名接待助理．你想申请此项工作．请根据以下提示给负责此事的王老师写一封电子邮件．
要点：(1)提出申请；
(2)介绍自己：乐于助人，口语流利，了解美国文化；
(3)希望得到此项工作。
注意：(1)可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
(2)词数80左右(开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数)。
Dear Mr. Wang,

I’m Li Hua, and I have learned you are looking for an assistant to serve the visiting Americans.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Looking forward to your reply．

Yours,

Li Hua

4 . 阅读下列文本，在空白处填入1个适当的单词(部分空有首字母或中文提示)。

Failures result in mental and emotional g    1    (成长). Curiosity drives us to    2    (探索), do more, solve problems and find solutions in our lives. Our thoughts and understanding of failures and successes s    3    (增强) in this growing period.

5 . I sat behind the wheel of my dad’s car and tried to fight back my fear of driving. For years, my dad _________ me to and from work without any complaint. He knew I was _________ of driving, so he never pushed me. It seemed as if he actually liked driving me around and I_________ it as much.

Now he pushed me to drive and I wondered what had caused this___________. My chest started to feel as if someone was sitting on it, and it was becoming harder to _________. He put his hand on my shoulder to _________ me. “Just take a deep breath and start the car.” I_________ and eased my way out of the parking lot and onto the street.

I couldn’t believe it. I was_________ driving. I didn’t know why I was scared in the first place-until I saw a speed sign that someone had run over. Scenes of_________ car crashes flashed into my mind. I held the wheel tightly.

“Remember your first cycle ride?” He tried to__________ my fear. “You kept falling off but you were so__________. I told you that you could do anything you set your mind to.”

“Why did you make me drive today?” I asked. He said, “My__________ was poorer, and I even ran into a sign. It’s probably just my blood pressure again.” My dad once again eased my fear.

__________, that was the last drive I had with my dad. It wasn’t his blood pressure; it was__________ that had given him only a few months to live. I never__________ driving. Every time I get behind the wheel, I could feel his comforting hand on my shoulder.

1.

A．walked

B．drove

C．led

D．helped

2.

A．fond

B．tired

C．frightened

D．proud

3.

A．enjoyed

B．forgot

C．understood

D．ignored

4.

A．loss

B．challenge

C．disappointment

D．change

5.

A．ride

B．fight

C．breathe

D．interrupt

6.

A．comfort

B．inspire

C．defend

D．inform

7.

A．replied

B．nodded

C．admitted

D．refused

8.

A．actually

B．unwillingly

C．hardly

D．immediately

9.

A．thought-provoking

B．life-threatening

C．eye-catching

D．brain-washing

10.

A．feel

B．notice

C．relieve

D．describe

11.

A．brave

B．scared

C．smart

D．anxious

12.

A．memory

B．strength

C．situation

D．eyesight

13.

A．Helplessly

B．Sadly

C．Frankly

D．Obviously

14.

A．pressure

B．headache

C．cancer

D．coughing

15.

A．carried on

B．thought of

C．took up

D．gave up

6 . It’s the holiday season, and you are on a long break from school and athletics. How do you make sure you stay fit during the holidays? Follow the five tips to keep yourself moving during the holidays.

Have a plan. Create a plan for your training sessions. This can make sure you “complete X amount of workouts a week” and have workouts scheduled into your day.     1    

Move.     2     This means getting up every 30-60 minutes to take a lap around the house, do a few push-ups or do anything to move your body. The worst thing you can do during this time off is to become sedentary (久坐的).

    3     Instead of completing training sessions alone, invite your family and friends to help. Bring a friend to the gym with you so you can spend quality time while also getting in some movement. Go for a family walk after breakfast.

Get enough sleep and rest. Enough rest will reduce the risk of injury. What’s more, it will provide a necessary mental reset. During the school year, you maintain a very busy schedule and sometimes sleep is not high on your priority list. While you have the time to rest, you should!    4    

Be realistic. This is the holiday season, after all!     5     You should expect to miss a session or two to sleep in a bit. Participating in the festivities and spending time with your friends and family will not affect your sport performance!

A．Exercise in the morning.

B．Make doing sports a social event.

C．Make sure you get in some sort of movement daily.

D．So don’t be too hard on yourself when it comes to exercise.

E．Eating healthily now will give you more energy throughout the day.

F．In addition, you are more likely to complete them without affecting other events.

G．Therefore, when you go back to school, your body and mind will be ready to work.

7 . Ever think you’re getting enough sleep only to wake up tired? It’s not just you-it happens to the best of us. Now, scientists say they have discovered the secret to waking up clear-headed and refreshed each and every morning.

According to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley, published in Nature Communications, beyond sleep quality, the second main feature predicting day-to-day changes in morning alertness (机敏) was the intensity of physical activity the day before. In particular, researchers found that when the extent of an individual’s physical activity was comparatively greater the day before, people felt more alert the next morning.

Another factor happens not on the day before or even the night before, but the that participants consumed for breakfast that explained their alertness levels. When individuals consumed the “high carbs”(高碳水)breakfast，they experienced higher levels of alertness.

Beyond the effects of the high carbohydrate meal itself, one of the strongest outcomes shown in the study was the marked reduction in alertness on days when participants consumed a lot of sugar. It may sound paradoxical that a lot of sugar predicts a drop in alertness and the high carb breakfast is linked to an increase in alertness. But, despite their common high carbohydrate content, there are key nutritional (营养的) differences between the high-carb and sugar meals.

Raphael Vallat, first author of the study, said, “If you have better sleep quality, you’re going to see an increase in your alertness. If you run two kilometers on the day before, you’re going to see an increase. You can see improvements with each and every one of these factors.”

1. How can you wake up clear-headed according to the new study?

A．Sleep alertly at night.

B．Eat a breakfast high in sugar.

C．Consume less high-carb food.

D．Do enough exercise the day before.

2. What does the underlined word “paradoxical” in paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Inconsistent.

B．Reasonable.

C．Familiar.

D．Obvious.

3. Which section of a newspaper is the text most probably taken from?

A．Food.

B．Technology.

C．Health.

D．Sport.

8 . City life is cool: but is country life cooler? The answer is yes. As cities grow ever bigger, lots of people would like to leave their city and live in the countryside.

    1     Cities like Liverpool and Glasgow have lost about 30% of their population in 30 years. But Britain’s population is still growing.     2     They are moving to the countryside.

The English countryside has a classic image. People imagine that life in the countryside is slow and calm; that people have more space and most houses have gardens; that there are no traffic jams, no pollution, and no crime.     3    

People in Britain want to live in the countryside. It is causing problems in some rural areas. People live in the countryside and work in the city.     4     Of course they don’t use buses (they are too slow) or trains (they-don’t stop in the countryside); they use cars. Little villages now have traffic problems in the morning, just like big cities! What’s more, although many people live in the countryside, they want to use supermarkets and good fast roads. . . . But they do not want to see the crowds to and from such supermarkets or hear the noise of the roads.     5     There is not enough to do. There are not enough activities or excitements.

A．Where are the people going?

B．In some places, this is true; but in others it is not.

C．So they travel long distances each day to go to work.

D．The population of British cities has been falling for years.

E．Besides, lots of young people say that life in the countryside is boring.

9 . Anger is a natural feeling that everyone experiences in life. Some researchers believe the first sound a baby makes when born could be a sign of anger. Anger may be the first feeling we have and respond to. It’s in many cases a perfectly healthy feeling. Anger can cause people to make very positive changes in their lives. Sometimes we have to be angry at injustice (不公正), at wrong doings, or even at nature, before we can do what needs to be done to correct wrongs or make things better. But of course, that is not how we usually think of anger.

Most people think of anger as a feeling we must keep under control. Children are sometimes sent to their rooms or punished for expressing anger in an uncontrolled way. Parents tell a child to control himself when the child shows anger. We may be angry with friends or at work, but we know it’s not right to show it. Very early in life, we learn that anger is something that must be controlled.

We learn this for a good reason. Uncontrolled anger can lead to fights, car accidents, bad relationships with others, unacceptable social behavior, and many other problems. However, many experts say that if one suppresses his anger, he may suffer serious mental and physical health problems. So what can we do to understand and calm this feeling?

One solution is to talk about it with someone we trust, for example, a good friend. We can also try to walk away from a situation that causes anger, ask a doctor for advice, or just exercise more in our daily life. And of course we may have many other methods. Whatever solution we choose, as long as we are trying to find the solution to the problem, we have already taken the first step in the right direction.

1. According to Paragraph 1, anger can _____.

A．lead to justice	B．keep us healthy
C．help us tell right from wrong	D．help us make things better

2. What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us?

A．We are taught to control anger.

B．Anger appears early in life.

C．We shouldn’t get angry at work.

D．Angry children should be punished.

3. The underlined word “suppresses” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _____.

A．holds in

B．takes in

C．expresses

D．understands

4. Which of the following can help deal with anger?

A．Excellent physical health.

B．A talk with a close friend.

C．Some exercises given by teachers.

D．A good relationship with others.

5. What does the author think of anger?

A．Anger shown by children is unacceptable.

B．Anger leads to deadly mental and physical illnesses.

C．Anger can be a healthy feeling and need be treated properly.

D．Anger builds up relationships with our friends or workmates.

10 . In 2016, I suffered from Seasonal Affective Disorder(SAD) a form of depression(抑郁症) that is found to make people feel low in the UK between September and April. During that cold and wet period, I got comfort in books.

Books have been used by many to reduce depression. I lose myself into them as thirstily as usually get my morning coffee. Each Christmas, I have a habit of returning to the old favorite books that make up for my emptiness, such as Jane Eyre. Sometimes, to escape from the cold, I run back to the heat that I am used to, so I will read a lot of books set in Africa.

It became important for me to find a way to escape my sadness in the world of books. And isn’t that what art and literature is for? According to JJ Bola, the author of No Place to Call Home, “The world can get you so down that you think you’re the only person going through what you’re going through. But then you read and you realize that you are not alone that if someone else has gone through it and survived, then maybe you can, too.” It is this survival that the reader looks for, that is, the understanding that the winter is not so long after all.

1. What was the possible cause for the author’s illness?

A．His personality.	B．His poor health.
C．Sleeplessness.	D．Cold and wet seasons.

2. The author likes reading old favorite books because they help him________.

A．kill time	B．keep warm
C．enjoy Christmas time	D．drive away emptiness

3. Which book may the author probably read when he feels cold?

A．Jane Eyre.	B．Out of Africa.
C．Alice in Wonderland.	D．No Place to Call Home.

4. Through reading, the author________.

A．finds a way to escape his sadness

B．gets along better with others

C．leans more about other cultures

D．becomes more interested in literature

5. What is the best title for the passage?

A．Reading Reduces Depression	B．Reading Keeps You Warm
C．How to Escape Loneliness	D．How to Survive Winters