1 . Najib is an Afghan who grew up in Iran. He led a tough life. When he found his children would be in the same situation, his family initially returned to Afghanistan. But with the country filled with conflicts, they decided to leave for Indonesia.

“When we first came here, we were in a bad situation. Its language, culture and even weather were different. We had moved away from friends and family,” says Najib. “I was in a tough position but I acted strong because there were no other choices.”

Refugees (难民) cannot work in Indonesia and there are limited choices for refugee children to attend local schools. Determined to avoid such a fate, a group of refugees in Puncak took action and scraped together (东拼西凑) their resources to set up a school—the Refugee Learning Center (RLC).

“Our only goal and task is to provide basic education, and prepare the refugee children for their future,” says Abdullah Sarwari. “We’re also trying to provide a normal life as much as possible for them.”

The RLC has also started offering Bahasa Indonesia classes to the refugee community. “Between the refugee and the local community, I feel like there’s a language barrier which stops the refugee from having an honest and open interaction with Indonesians,” says Abdullah.

“If you try your best, to learn the language of a particular place or country, it really helps make things easier,” says Najib. He is among those who signed up for classes, although he admits progress has been slow. But life has improved in some ways for him and his family.

Najib says, “The centre is an opportunity for refugee to show that they are not a burden. If they have the opportunity, they can accomplish big and great things like this.”

1. Why did Najib decide to leave for Indonesia?

A．To escape the conflict in Afghanistan.

B．To experience Indonesian culture.

C．To help refugees in Indonesia.

D．To get equal rights to vote.

2. What’s the main purpose of founding the RLC for refugee children?

A．To help them learn English.

B．To make them stay away from bad luck.

C．To provide them with chances to live in Indonesia.

D．To make them have access to receiving basic education.

3. What can we learn about Najib according to the text?

A．He is the leader of refugees.

B．He founded the RLC himself.

C．He studies Indonesian in the RLC.

D．He lives a wealthy life in Indonesia.

4. What’s the best title for this text?

A．The Goal of Founding a School

B．A School for Refugees by Refugees

C．A Reason for Leaving for Indonesia

D．The Benefit of Learning a New Language

2 . 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。

Helping others    1    (be ) a good thing, because we can get some enjoyment out of it. So I    2     (firm) believe that participating in a volunteering activity can benefit us a lot.

Firstly,we can get a lot of life experience and gain    3    (skill) to help those in need.Secondly, we would make more friends and learn much knowledge.Then we can get well    4    (prepare)for our future. Thirdly, we may gain a special skill    5    can help us live better in    6    (challenge) conditions. And lastly, taking such    7    activity means letting everyone in the world feel the existence of love and    8    (warm). Maybe we will know more about    9    the happiness is.

So,try to become a volunteer and do our best to help others. I believe we can know more about ourselves and our    10    (wonder) future.

3 . The Liangzhu ruins in Hangzhou, pointing to an established Chinese civilisation 5,000 years ago,   have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Every Chinese child is taught at school that the country's civilisation is 5,000 years old, but proving this beyond doubt has been a problem.

Now, a jade artifact(玉器)named “King of Cong”, found in the Liangzhu city ruins near Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, has provided an answer. Accordingto radiocarbon dating(放射性碳定年法),the 6.5kg object is 5,300 years old. It is one ofthe largest objects among all Cong from Liangzhu. The piece has now won greater global recognition.

However, the site has far more than just things made of jade.The main area, spread over14.3 square kilometers in the Yuhang area of Hangzhou, includes not only a city’s ruins but 11 dams and several cemeteries(墓地), all about 5,000 years old. Archaeological facts show that people lived in Liangzhu for about a thousand years.

“The archaeological ruins of Liangzhu (3300-2300 BCE) show an early state with a unified belief system based on growing rice in Late Neolithic China(中国新石器时代晚期). ”the UNESCO World Heritage Committee said.“These ruins are an extremely good example of early city civilisation expressed in town planning, a water conservation system and a social order which can be seen in where and how people were buried in cemeteries within the ruins.”

According to studies led by Liu Bin, director of the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the inner part of theancient city ruins covers 2.8 square kilometers, about five times the area of the Forbidden City in Beijing, and the outer city spreads across 6.3 square kilometers. Liu said it was the biggest city ruins site of its time to be found in China, and was also one of the largest cities of its day in the world.

1. ________ can prove that China has a civilisation of 5,000 years old?

A．The king named Cong.	B．The archaeological ruins of Liangzhu.
C．The UNESCO World Heritage Committee.	D．The historical site at Hangzhou dam.

2. What do we know about the ancient Liangzhu city?

A．A different system of value in the region.	B．The end of Chinese civilisation.
C．The biggest city ruins all over the world.	D．The whole area—9.1 square kilometers.

3. Why is the Forbidden City mentioned in the last paragraph?

A．To focus on the great achievements.

B．To inform us of the importance about architecture.

C．To stress the large scale of ancient Liangzhu city.

D．To present advanced technology and outstanding civilisation.

4 . 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。

A hotel chain is employing human bed warmers to help guests get a good night’s sleep.     1     (dress) in special all-in-one sleeping suits, the walking electric blankets are sent to warm the beds of guests staying at the Holiday Inn     2     they get under the covers.

Dr Chris Idzikowski,     3     (direct) of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, said the idea could help people get off to sleep. He     4     (explain) that “There’s plenty of scientific evidence to show that sleep starts at the beginning of the night     5     body temperature starts to drop. The drop occurs partly because the blood vessels (血管)     6     the hands, face and feet open up and release heat.” “A warm bed –approximately 20 to 24 degrees Celsuis –is     7     good way to start this process while a cold bed isn’t. It helps people sleep well especially as it’s taking much     8     (long) for them to warm up when they come in from the snow.”

Dr Chris Idzikowski and     9     (he) colleague Jane Bednall said the idea was like “having a giant hot water bottle in your bed”. The five-minute free bed warming sessions will be tried out in London and Manchester     10     the end of next month.

5 . From childhood, Moira loved to write. Throughout school she ________ writing, but pursuing it ________ was never a possibility. Her father was a doctor, her mother a nurse. “Medicine was a fairly ________ choice,” Moira says, “and writing was a career where it wasn’t a ________ that you’d have high income.”

She became a doctor but still wanted to write something. However, being a doctor was so ________ that she didn’t take up writing until her thirties. She ________ a novel – a fictionalized version of her travel in China after university. She got excellent ________. Moira sent it off to as many agents as she could find, and found one who wanted to ________ her. Suddenly, it seemed she was on her ________ as an author.

“I had one lengthy phone call with the agent where we ________ all possible areas that she thought needed ________. I worked on those and sent it back to her but didn’t hear anything.” It wasn’t long ________ Moira found another agent who was ________ if she was willing to rewrite it from the first person to the third person. She did the hard work and sent it off again. “I got back a really brief letter: ‘Thank you, I’m no longer interested.’ It was really ________.”

A decade went by, and Moira found herself eager to write again, this time ________ for her own enjoyment. She ________ herself the challenge of creating a thriller and chose Western Australia as her setting.

As she was writing just for herself, something surprising began to happen. “The characters ________ a life of their own; they started doing things I hadn’t thought about. It just ________.” One day, an agent called from Australia. Three weeks later, Moira had a publication deal. Her novel, Cicada, was published in March.

“________ it hadn’t been published I still gained so much from the ________,” says Moira.

1.

A．avoided

B．enjoyed

C．intended

D．postponed

2.

A．actively

B．energetically

C．permanently

D．professionally

3.

A．influential

B．safe

C．tentative

D．tiresome

4.

A．certainty

B．dream

C．choice

D．purpose

5.

A．challenging

B．declining

C．demanding

D．promising

6.

A．bought

B．introduced

C．produced

D．received

7.

A．reviews

B．revision

C．rewards

D．reservation

8.

A．employ

B．guide

C．represent

D．trust

9.

A．business

B．feet

C．own

D．way

10.

A．came over

B．pulled down

C．took off

D．went through

11.

A．adapting

B．covering

C．deleting

D．polishing

12.

A．after

B．before

C．since

D．when

13.

A．interested

B．fascinated

C．restricted

D．tolerated

14.

A．absurd

B．common

C．disappointing

D．terrifying

15.

A．instantly

B．purely

C．sadly

D．wonderfully

16.

A．found

B．made

C．permitted

D．set

17.

A．got down

B．put up

C．took on

D．went over

18.

A．flew

B．flashed

C．floated

D．survived

19.

A．As if

B．Even if

C．Ever since

D．If only

20.

A．process

B．procedure

C．recreation

D．terminal

6 . Most of us have looked up at the stars that fill the night sky and wondered whether we’re alone in the universe. Indeed, the question of whether there’ s life out there has been something humankind ’s been asking itself for countless years. But thanks to China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the answer to this question may come a lot sooner than we expected.

The telescope has a huge round reflector, which measures 500 meters across and has a perimeter（周长）of 1.6 kilometers. Because of its great size, it would have been both difficult and inefficient to get FAST to move like a regular telescope. Instead, FAST’s designers came up with a great solution: its surface is made up of 4450 panels which can be individually adjusted. This clever design feature allows scientists to detect radio signals from any angle with a great degree of accuracy. “Panels can change their positions through connected wires and parallel （关联的） robots. We can control their position with an accuracy of 1 mm,” Zheng Yuanpeng, chief engineer of the telescope’s panel project, told Xinhua News Agency.

FAST’s engineers also had the task of finding a suitable location. As any interference would affect its ability to detect distant radio waves, it needed to be built in a remote area. Luckily, the perfect spot was found in the beautiful mountains of Guizhou Province. “There are three hills about 500 meters away from one another, creating a valley that is perfect to support the telescope," Sun Caihong, chief engineer of FAST’ s construction, told Xinhua.

And although it wasn’t yet fully operated, FAST had already made great discoveries by October 2017. Since 1967, only around 2000 pulsars （脉冲星） have been discovered, yet FAST had detected six more by October 2017. Once FAST is fully up and running, we may finally have the answer to one of the biggest questions in history.

1. What is the purpose of mentioning the question in Paragraph 1?

A．To introduce the new giant telescope.

B．To explain why there is life in universe.

C．To remind readers to think about the life in space.

D．To emphasize the question that should be answered.

2. What can we know from Paragraph 2?

A．The telescope is made up of many panels.

B．The area of FAST is about 800 square kilometers.

C．The engineer can handle FAST’s position accurately.

D．The individual panel helps scientists catch radio signals.

3. Why was FAST built in Guizhou?

A．Because Guizhou is a remote province.

B．Because Guizhou has an ideal valley.

C．Because Guizhou has beautiful mountains.

D．Because Guizhou has the ability to build it.

4. What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?

A．FAST’s timeline.	B．FAST’s future.
C．FAST’s operation.	D．FAST’s discoveries.

7 . Life in the Internet age is lonely—or is it? That’s what experts in human interaction are debating after a new Stanford University survey has been published.

According to the study, the more time people spend online, the less they can spare for real-life relationships with family and friends. The researchers asked 113 people about the Web’s influence on daily activities. 36％ of those people are online for more than five hours a week.” As Internet use becomes more widespread, it will have an increasingly isolating (孤立的) effect on society,” says Robert Kraut, one of the researchers.

Scholars and Web lovers criticized the study for stretching its data to make the “isolating” point. While 13％ of regular Web users admitted the loss of time with loved ones, 60％ reported watching less TV. The survey also shows that E-mail is the most popular online activity. If some of webheads (网虫)spend what was once passive TV time keeping company with friends via E-mails, “that’s a move toward greater connectedness,” says Paul Resnick, a professor at the University of Michigan.

This isn’t the first claim that the Web should be criticized. A 1998 report monitored 73 Pittsburgh-area families’ Net use for a year. People who used the Internet more “talked less to family members and reported being lonelier and more depressed.” says Robert Kraut.

“It’s true that there have been big declines in social connectedness over the past decades, but those declines began before the Internet was invented,” says Thomas Putnam.

As Amitay Etzioni says, the Internet gives us a different kind of social life—not better or worse than before, but just different.

1. Who claimed that the Web had negative influence?

A．Paul Resnick.	B．Robert Kraut.
C．Thomas Putnam.	D．Amitay Etzioni.

2. The underlined word “This” in Para.4 refers to       .

A．the opinion expressed in Bowling Alone

B．the survey made by the University of Michigan

C．the conclusion in a report written in 1998

D．the study conducted by Stanford University

3. From the passage we learn that       .

A．watching TV used to take time away from staying online

B．the Web was blamed more than once for causing an isolating effect

C．36％ of web users spend more than five hours a week online

D．the Web has the same influence as telephones and televisions

4. The passage mainly discusses       .

A．how we can make a better use of the Internet

B．how declines in social connectedness appear

C．whether the Internet causes an isolating effect

D．what a different life the Internet brings to us

8 . Hundreds of children are being treated for sleep problems in Wales every year. In some cases，babies，infants (婴儿)and teenagers have been admitted to hospital in north Wales alone.

The Children’s Sleep Charity said many children were suffering from lack of sleep mainly because of technology use. Public Health Wales said sleep was as important to a child’s health as healthy eating and exercise，and children with poor sleep patterns were more likely to be fat.

Statistics obtained (获得) under the Freedom of Information Act by BBC Wales found at least 408 children have been admitted to hospitals across Wales suffering from sleep disorders since March 2013.

Children aged between 0 and 4 made up the highest number of inpatients (住院病人)，with some newborns being treated for sleep-related problems from the day of birth.

Vicki Dawson，who set up the Children’s Sleep Charity (CSC)，said sleepless nights were putting both children and parents in anxiety. “Their weight and growth may also be affected as well as their mental health，”she said.

Teachers said children showing signs of sleep shortage and tiredness in class were a concern as they couldn’t concentrate for long periods.

Psychologist Amy McClelland，of Sleep Wales，saida common problem was that children were “over excited”before bed and that families should get back to basics. “Think 1950s family home. Dinner as a family，read，chat，a film maybe，lights off and then bed. ”She added.

1. What’s the main reason why children are short of sleep？

A．Less exercise.	B．Eating habits.
C．Technology use.	D．Sleep patterns.

2. Who are the majority of the inpatients with sleep-related disorders？

A．Infants.	B．Teenagers.
C．Teachers.	D．Parents.

3. What can we infer from what Amy McClelland said？

A．Chatting and films make children sleep more.

B．It is difficult for children to read before bed.

C．Being too excitedis good for sleep habits.

D．Relaxation has a bad effect on children.

4. What is the best title for the text？

A．Ways to Treat Sleep Problems	B．Sleep Problems of Welsh Children
C．Sleep Habits of Welsh Children	D．The Problems of Welsh Children

9 . Try This at Home!

Are you looking for a new pastime that will create a balance between physical activity and relaxation? Then yoga may be the perfect choice for you. Yoga can be practiced by people of all ages and levels of fitness.    1     It's a great way to strengthen your muscles and become more flexible.

In the 1930s, Indian Sri Tirumali and K. Pattabhi developed one of the most popular forms of yoga practised worldwide today. They worked together using an ancient Sansknt text called Yoga Korunta to create a set routine of yoga movements and breathing exercises.     2    

Ashtanga is different from other forms of yoga. It is a very powerful form of aerobic (有氧的)exercise which creates deep heat in the body.     3     In other forms of yoga, however, the routine can change each time and the stretching exercises aren't aerobic.

    4    As well as making you stronger and more flexible, it can also help you to stay calm. By focusing on your breathing while doing physical exercise, you are able to get a balance between mind and body. In addition, yoga helps to make us healthier so we are less likely to get common illnesses like colds.

Furthermore, yoga encourages you to think about what you're doing. Often you will close your eyes while doing certain movements.    5    After a few lessons you'll stop looking at what the others around you are doing. You will stop comparing yourself and start focusing on yourself.

A．It can also be done anywhere at any time.

B．The result of their co-operation was ashtanga yoga.

C．Whatever kind of yoga you choose, there are many long-term benefits.

D．This allows you to concentrate better and it makes you less competitive.

E．Every time someone practices ashtanga, he or she does exactly the same movements.

F．If you're interested in yoga, but can find a class near you, then it might be     an excuse to travel.

G．Recently, it has become extremely common for beginners as well as advanced yoga students to go on yoga holidays.

10 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. When is the competition held?

A．On December 7th.

B．On December 12th.

C．On December 17th.

2. Where is the competition to be held this year?

A．Near a lake.

B．At the Town Hall.

C．At the radio station.

3. What is the prize for the first-prize winner?

A．A ride on a plane.

B．A talk with a musician.

C．A visit to a school.

4. How can people get more information?

A．By speaking to Maggie in person.	B．By going to the radio station.
C．By making a phone call.