1 . 选词填空

creation   composer   view   inspire   graduate   with   study   make   musical   effort   stage   clerk   see   function   board

The virtual choir was the idea of award-winning     1     and conductor Eric Whitacre. Born in the USA on 2 January 1970, Whitacre began studying music at the University of Nevada in 1988. He fell in love     2     Mozart’s classical music when he sang for the university choir. Moved by this music, he said, “It was like seeing color for the first time.” He     3     from university in 1995, and then received a master’s degree in     4     composition from the Juilliard School in New York in 1997. Over the next 10 years, Whitacre’s original compositions began to become quite popular among choirs and singers. This led to the     5     of the virtual choir.

In 2009, Whitacre received a video of a girl who was singing one of his works.     6    , he asked his fans to     7     videos, which he then joined together into one performance. His first virtual choir, “Lux Aurumque”, had 185 singers from 12 different countries. It has received millions of     8     on the Internet. Since then, the virtual choir has become a worldwide phenomenon. Whitacre’s next     9     was the Virtual Youth Choir for UNICEF, which was first seen on     10     on 23 July 2014 in the UK. Altogether, 2,292 young people from 80 countries joined in to sing Whitacre’s song “What If”.

2 . 假定你是李华，作为学校文化交流项目的代表，接待一群外国学生来清远过春节，请你写一篇演讲稿，欢迎他们的到来，并对清远这个城市以及清远的春节传统做简要介绍。演讲包括以下要点：
1．代表学校欢迎外国学生们来清远欢度春节；
2．简要介绍清远（地理位置，人口大约390万，美食等）；
3．介绍清远的春节传统（看舞狮，吃团圆饭，逛花街等）；
【写作要求】
1．字数100词左右。
2．包括以上内容要点，可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
【参考词汇】
团圆饭 the reunion dinner
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5 . Working out for 30 minutes every day “might not be enough” to fight against the health problems created by long time sitting, according to a sweeping new study.

The new study, unlike the past ones that examined sitting and formal exercise separately, paying little attention to light activities, involved 3,702 people to find out how those all affected people’s health indices (指数).

With the data collected, researchers characterized people by how they moved. The first group dutifully exercised for a half-hour and then sat, almost nonstop, for more than 10 hours a day. Another group similarly worked out for 30 minutes and sat for long hours. But, in between, they rose often and took walks around, spending time in light activities like fetching another cup of coffee. The third group sat, without any stop, for up to 10 hours, but also collected an hour of exercise most days. The final group, which the researchers named “the movers,” exercised about an hour most days, while also moving lightly for about two hours more.

When the researchers cross-checked these groups against people’s current health data, the first group had the worst indices. Different from the first group, the other groups were all better off and to about the same extent, with relatively improved blood sugar control and cholesterol (胆固醇) levels and about 8 percent less body fat than the first group.

“A single 30-minute, daily workout ‘might not be enough’ to reduce the bad effects of longtime sitting,” said Vahid Farrahi, the lead author of the new study. “In addition to a brisk (轻快的) workout, we need to move lightly and often, cleaning, taking the stairs, taking a walk in the halls or just not remaining still.”

1. How is the new study different from the previous ones?

A．It examined sitting and exercise separately.

B．It proved that light activities were ignored.

C．It suggested working out for a half-hour.

D．It took light activities into consideration.

2. What do we learn from Paragraph 3 and 4?

A．The first group spent one hour on light activities after long sitting.

B．The third group collected an hour’s exercise during 10 hours’ sitting.

C．The second group got similar improved health indices as the movers.

D．The movers got up every 30 minutes for formal exercise for four hours.

3. What light activity is suggested to take in the last paragraph?

A．Reading while sitting.	B．Walking in the gym hall.
C．Working out in the gym.	D．Swimming in the pool.

4. What can we infer from Vahid’s words?

A．Moving lightly and often is more useful than we have thought.

B．It’s better to exercise more often than half an hour every day.

C．Working out harder and longer is better than just moving lightly.

D．A 30-minute workout has little help for long time sitting problems.

6 . Last year I ruined my summer vacation by bringing along a modern convenience: the iPad.

Instead of looking at nature, I _________ my e-mail. Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading _________ newspapers each morning. And that was the problem: I was acting as if I were still in the office. My body was on vacation but my _________ wasn’t.

So this year I made up my mind to break the habit cycle and try something _________—getting away from the Internet. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, _________ I’m not good at self-discipline. But I was _________. I started by handing the iPad to my wife. Then, a stroke of luck: the mobile phone _________ in our cottage was worse than in the past. I was trapped, forced to carry out my plan. Largely _________ from e-mail and my favourite newspaper websites, I had little way to _________ the world. I had no __________ but to do what I had planned to do all along—read books.

With determination and the strong support of my wife, I succeeded in my vacation struggle against the Internet. I finally __________ that it was me, of course, not the iPad, that was the __________.

I knew I had __________ when we passed a coffee shop and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “Don’t need it,” I said. __________, as we return to work, a test begins: Can I survive when I’m back at work? I don’t plan to __________ my iPad completely. But I hope to resist the temptation(抵抗诱惑) to use it every five minutes.

1.

A．deleted

B．checked

C．submitted

D．skipped

2.

A．miserable

B．annual

C．online

D．traditional

3.

A．agenda

B．mind

C．vigour

D．psychology

4.

A．negative

B．decent

C．physical

D．different

5.

A．so

B．unless

C．though

D．as

6.

A．resolved

B．restricted

C．qualified

D．absorbed

7.

A．quality

B．design

C．signal

D．technology

8.

A．stressed out

B．turned down

C．cut off

D．decided on

9.

A．rely on

B．connect to

C．deal with

D．give off

10.

A．method

B．goal

C．trick

D．choice

11.

A．realized

B．abandoned

C．released

D．underwent

12.

A．trend

B．disposal

C．evidence

D．problem

13.

A．won

B．forgotten

C．suffered

D．recovered

14.

A．Somehow

B．Anyway

C．However

D．Therefore

15.

A．take apart

B．give up

C．turn to

D．care about

7 . 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。

A girl went to her mother and complained that the senior high school life was so hard for her. Every day she studied very hard and often stayed up late doing homework, but the result was beyond satisfaction. She often felt lonely without anyone to talk with at school. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the water came to the boil. She placed carrots into the first pot. Then she placed eggs into the second pot. Finally, she placed ground coffee beans into the last pot. She let them boil without saying a word.

In about twenty minutes, she turned off the burners. She took the carrots, the eggs and the coffee out with a scoop and placed each of them in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, the mother asked, “Tell me, what do you see?” “Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” the girl replied. The mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked her to drink the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted it.

The daughter then asked, “What does it mean, Mom?” Her mother explained that these objects had faced the same adversity—boiling water, but they reacted differently. The carrots had been hard. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, they softened and became weak. The eggs had been weak. Their thin outer shells had protected their liquid interior(内部). But after sitting through the boiling water, their inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water. “Which are you?” the mother asked her daughter.

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The girl became silent and lost in thought.

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The girl changed completely from then on.

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8 . 选词填空

reject   from   marriage   responded   complain   in   majority   physician       Scholarship   hire   serve   affect   decades        publish

As a five-year-old girl, Lin Qiaozhi was deeply     1     by her mother’s death. At age 18, instead of following the traditional marriage path of like the     2    of girls, she chose to study medicine. “Why should girls learn so much? Finding a good husband should be their final goal!” her brother     3    , thinking of the high tuition fees. She     4    , “I’d rather stay single to study all my life!”

Eight years later, Lin graduated     5     Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) with the Wenhai     6    , the highest prize given to graduates. She immediately became the first woman ever to be     7     as a resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. Within six months, she was named a chief resident       8    , a position that usually took four years to achieve. After working for a few years, she was sent to study in Europe and then, in 1939, in the US. She greatly impressed her American colleagues, who invited her to stay. Dr Lin, however,     9    the offer. She wanted to     10     the women and children at home.

9 . 假定你是李华,你的英语老师要求你们写一篇英语短文介绍自己最敬佩的一位人物。内容包括：
1.你最敬佩的人物；
2.你敬佩他/她的原因；
3.他/她对你的影响。
注意:   1.词数100左右；     2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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10 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容或括号内所给词的恰当形式填空。

Marie Curie was one of the     1     (much) famous and greatest people of her time. Together with her husband Pierre, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1903, and she tried her best     2     (win) another in 1911. Marie     3     (be) the daughter of a teacher, and in 1891 she went to Paris to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne (索邦大学)    4     she met Piere Curie, professor of the School of Physics. They got married in 1895. At the end of 1898, they announced     5    discovery of radium. The Curies, were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

Pierre's life was cut short in 1906 when he     6     (kill) by a carriage. Marie took over his teaching work,     7     (become) the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne. She received a second Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 191l. Despite her     8     (succeed), Marie continued to face great objection (反对) from men     9    (scientist) in France. In the late 1920s, her health was beginning to become worse, and she died     10    July 4th, 1934 from high-energy radiation from her research.