1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小 题。
1. What are the speakers talking about?

A．Shopping for Christmas.

B．Performing on Christmas.

C．Selecting Christmas lights.

2. Why will the event get press attention?

A．The lead actors are well known.

B．The market is in a famous location.

C．The new actors have good images.

3. How does the woman feel about the opportunity?

A．Excited.

B．Uninterested.

C．Worried.

4. What must be perfect on the day according to the woman?

A．The ticket sales.

B．The sound quality.

C．The costumes.

2 . 双向翻译

Holidays with friends can be great fun and a good way of getting to know each other better.    1    一个好的旅行计划将会帮助你玩得很愉快. Also it will help you to save money if you start planning earlier.

Choose a place to visit. Going abroad will cost more but be a more exciting experience. Don’t go abroad if this is the first time you organize(组织)the holidays.    2     Going to a different place in your own country can also be fun and will be cheaper.

Collect your friends. Work out how many people you will be able to plan the trip for.    3    邀请能和你友好相处的人。

Meet up. Everyone will have their own idea of what the trip to be like, you should have a meeting.     4    你最好准备一个笔记本写下一些重要的事情。

Book transport(交通). When you decide on your hotel, you will know the dates of your stay and will be able to book transport, such as trains, buses and airplanes. Booking transport earlier can help you save some money.

    5     All in all, no matter where you go, just start planning as early as possible.

3 . One day my best friend accompanied me to the bus station and there happened to be one bus at the station ready to leave. We waved and crossed the road. Before I got on the bus, my best friend had to take something from my bag. I was surprised that the conductor was ________ enough to wait without urging me to hurry up as other conductors ________ do. Therefore, his behavior caught my ________ and I was amazed by him.

We started taking off and the conductor began ________ the passengers. Most of the people were giving him big notes. ________ it was early morning, he had all the rights to ________ to the passengers about the big money notes, but not a word of complaint came out from his mouth. He just ________ accepted the big notes and tried to find change for them. I had planned to give him a large note because the coins I had were very hard to reach, but I ________ that idea.

Soon I noticed he had a problem with his feet, making him look ________.This even touched my heart more because most disabled people are often in ________ mode. They are always moody and unkind in order to maintain their ________. This one in particular really ________ me and left me with a smiley heart.

Complaining is usually not a good ________, which makes things worse, not better. I was ________ by this conductor that complaining is a waste of energy. It would be better to choose to accept the fact and to stay calm. That will ________ you and people around you.

1.

A．honest

B．enthusiastic

C．patient

D．responsible

2.

A．formally

B．eventually

C．suddenly

D．usually

3.

A．attention

B．breath

C．thought

D．imagination

4.

A．observing

B．charging

C．guiding

D．inviting

5.

A．Considering

B．Realizing

C．Claiming

D．Expecting

6.

A．appeal

B．complain

C．explain

D．turn

7.

A．bravely

B．awkwardly

C．kindly

D．secretly

8.

A．gave up

B．put forward

C．stuck to

D．jumped at

9.

A．attractive

B．flexible

C．familiar

D．different

10.

A．virtual

B．confident

C．defensive

D．optimistic

11.

A．position

B．dignity

C．appearance

D．reputation

12.

A．interrupted

B．challenged

C．impressed

D．stimulated

13.

A．review

B．connection

C．operation

D．policy

14.

A．disciplined

B．reminded

C．requested

D．guaranteed

15.

A．benefit

B．follow

C．control

D．disturb

4 . In most cases, people pick the easy way out: the path of least resistance. Yet it’s the hard choice—the path of most resistance—that is more beneficial and provides most success in the long run.

How do these paths differ? What are the dangers of an easy life? What are the rewards of a hard life? How do you start taking the path of most resistance? Let’s cover all these questions.

Taking the path of least resistance means choosing the easiest available option, with little regard for its long-term consequences. For example, you eat whatever you like, whenever you like, and in whatever amount you like. This is often combined with avoiding physical activity because it’s too exhausting and uncomfortable. It may feel nice at first but all that indulgence has a very high price. In that case, it’s guaranteed being fat. Most people in the modern world follow this path, and this is why so many people struggle with a lack of self-discipline, good habits, etc.

The path of most resistance is about choosing the option that will lead to more personal growth, even if it means suffering in the early stages of the process. For example, it may cost you a lot to quit watching TV for hours on end. But over the long term, you’ll free up a lot of time that will lead to a more satisfying life than that of a couch potato.

At first sight, this approach is unappealing. It requires effort, loss of pleasure, and leads to potential suffering. Yet, on the other side of all that lies a world of more confidence, self-discipline and mental recovery. In the end, they do more than just making up for the fleeting superficial pleasures.

We’re lazy by nature. If we can do something more easily and comfortably, we’ll always choose that path over the one that’s harder. This tendency is an extremely powerful force, even when scientific research makes it clear that it’s bad for us.

1. What is the purpose of the questions in paragraph 2?

A．To introduce the content.

B．To explain a phenomenon.

C．To share the issues related.

D．To comment on the easy-path choice.

2. Which is closest in meaning to the underlined word “indulgence” in paragraph 3?

A．A serious weakness of humans.

B．A decision without full information.

C．A habit of acting to pleasures.

D．A choice made with careful thinking.

3. According to the author, what leads to people’s being fat?

A．Their lack of exercise.

B．Their low level of self-discipline.

C．The consumption of too much fat and sugar.

D．The abnormal development of society.

4. Which of the following represents the path of most resistance?

A．Oversleeping on weekends.

B．Taking your favourite sport regularly.

C．Quitting a well-paid job and taking a low-paid one.

D．Eating something you dislike to balance your diet.

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1. In this text, PenPal is a name of .

A．a story

B．a person

C．a website

D．a postcard

2. What can the users do through PenPal?

A．Share a new mailbox.	B．Exchange letters.
C．Go abroad with friends.	D．Learn different languages.

3. Where is the text probably taken from?

A．A magazine.	B．A newspaper.
C．A poster.	D．The Internet.

6 . Nowadays, the doctor has been asking people to take in less salt. New electric chopsticks in Japan may make it possible to make food taste saltier than it really is.

Miyashita, a professor at Meiji University, worked with Kirin Holdings Company to develop the special chopsticks.

The chopsticks come with a small computer. When you wear the computer on your arm, it can produce a weak electric current (电流) to free up the sodium ions (钠离子) in your food. As a result, you get a salty taste without the use of salt.

The purpose to create the chopsticks is to stop the Japanese from taking in too much salt. The traditional Japanese food includes a lot of salt. A Japanese adult eats about 10g of salt every day. The daily amount of salt, however, should be kept at around 5g. High salt intake can cause many illnesses, including high blood pressure and strokes (中风).

Miyashita and Kirin will continue to improve their electric chopsticks. They hope to be able to start selling the chopsticks in a short time.

1. What is the third paragraph mainly about?

A．How much the chopsticks cost.	B．What is put into the chopsticks.
C．How the chopsticks make food salty.	D．When we should use the chopsticks.

2. Why does Miyashita’s team produce the chopsticks?

A．To stop the Japanese from taking in more salt.

B．To have a good invention for the world.

C．To change the use of traditional chopsticks.

D．To help treat the people with high blood pressure.

3. What can we infer (推断) from the last paragraph?

A．The chopsticks have already been widely used .

B．The chopsticks will sell well in the future.

C．The chopsticks are still under development.

D．The chopsticks can make Miyashita richer.

4. What is the theme of the passage?

A．Culture.	B．Traffic.
C．Hobby.	D．Invention.

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。

When I was in Primary Five, I was in the basketball school team. Every month we would have a basketball match against another school’s basketball team. In spite of all the cheers we received from our classmates and the amount of training we had, we had never won a single match before. That was due to our lack of teamwork and cooperation.

During one of our training sessions, our school team was divided into two to have a match against each other. The inter-school competition was coming up and none of us wanted to miss our chance of getting that gold trophy(奖品). “Three, two, one, start!” our basketball coach, Coach Leong, shouted. John, who was in my team, managed to grab the ball that Coach Leong threw in the air. Since John grabbed the ball, he refused to let anyone, not even his teammates, take it.

“Pass the ball to me, John!” I shouted. I was in a good position to shoot the ball into the hoop(篮筺). To my shock, John made a rude face at me. I made an attempt to grab the ball from him. When I got my hands on the ball, it became a tug-of-war(激烈竞争) between John and me. Coach Leong shook his head and exploded like an active volcano. “Children! Is this the type of behavior that I should be seeing? The match is in two weeks! Do you even know the importance of teamwork?” Coach Leong gave us a disappointed look. It seemed as if he had some sad news to tell us.

I was right.

Coach Leong explained that he would be retiring after the match. “I hope you can show me your teamwork and cooperate with one another in this match before I retire.” I choked on my tears. My heart sank. We were giving Coach Leong such a tough time, when all he wanted was for us to show teamwork in the match. After that day, my teammates and I were determined to do our best and work as a team.

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1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在相应位置作答。
Para. 1     
On the day of the match, we stood face-to-face with our opponents, the team from River Primary School.
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Para. 2     
John did a perfect overhead throw and I caught the ball in mid-air.   
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8 . Thomas Andrews was born in Belfast in 1813, son of a merchant. He was described as “a modest, silent boy with a great capacity for general knowledge”. He had published the first of his many scientific papers in the Philosophical Magazine entitled “On the action of a flame urged by the blowpipe on other flames” at age 14. Shortly after this his second publication “On the detection of Baryta or Strontia when in union with Lime” appeared in the same journal.

He started his formal study of chemistry in 1828 at Glasgow University under Thomas Thomson and continued it later in Paris. There he worked in the laboratories of J. B. Dumas and L. J. Thenard, where he learned chemical analysis from these most distinguished French analytical chemists. Returning to Dublin, he took a B. A. degree at Trinity College Dublin before completing his medical studies in Edinburgh. At 23 he became a physician in Belfast, as well as professor of chemistry at the Belfast Academical Institute. His medical commitments in the next ten years meant he had little time for experimentation but he still managed to publish a number of scientific papers.

When the Queen’s College opened in 1845, he became its first professor of chemistry, as well as its Vice-President. As an outstanding experimentalist, he was the first to show that ozone is another form of oxygen. Using narrow-bore, thick glass capillary tubes (毛细管), to contain gases under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure, he was able to show that Boyle’s Law did not apply in these extreme conditions. He established the crucial concept of critical temperature and critical pressure. His discoveries led to the liquefaction of all gases, some of which had previously been thought not to be able to exist as liquids. Internationally recognized, he was elected to many scientific academies, and in 1867, became president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

1. What can be known about teenage Thomas Andrews?

A．He was a faithful reader of Philosophical Magazine.

B．He was nationally famous.

C．He had strong interest in science.

D．He was excellent in every subject.

2. Why did Andrews go to Paris?

A．To complete one of his papers.

B．To learn from French scientists.

C．To earn a B.A. degree in chemistry.

D．To further his medical studies.

3. Why is Boyle’s Law mentioned in the last paragraph?

A．To analyse a phenomenon.

B．To demonstrate an old theory.

C．To introduce Andrews’ discovery.

D．To illustrate a chemistry experiment.

4. Which is the right order of the following events?
a．Thomas Andrews became a physician in Belfast.
b．Thomas Andrews published his first paper in a magazine.
c．Thomas Andrews studied chemistry at Glasgow University.
d．Thomas Andrews was appointed Vice-President of the Queen’s College.

A．d-a-b-c

B．b-a-d-c

C．d-b-a-c

D．b-c-a-d

9 . 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。

The annual Halloween arrived, during which kids dressed in traditional clothes went to neighbors’ houses to ask for candy.

Allison lived in a small town. That day after dinner, Allison put on her dress her father had just bought for her. The dress was cheap and second-hand because her family was poor. But Allison still thanked her dad and said, “Everyone will love my dress!” Then, she left for neighbors’ houses to ask for candy.

On the way, she came across Anna and her friends and wanted to join them. “No! Look at your dress! It’s ugly!” Anna said. Her friends also laughed. “Look at our dresses, especially mine! It’s new and beautiful,” Anna added. Her friends nodded, and in some way they were right. Anna’s dress was shiny and looked expensive. She always had the best clothes because her parents were rich.

Allison was shocked and sad. The kids not only disliked her dress but made fun of it. “You can’t come with us!” Anna stressed. “We would never hang out with you!” The other kids agreed and laughed. They all left to start collecting candy for the night while Allison was left alone, embarrassed in the middle of the street.

Anyway, she knew all the neighbors. She often helped around carrying their groceries and helping them with their gardens. People around there knew her. She didn’t need to hangout with Anna or her friends. “I’ll go just alone,” the little girl said to herself and started walking.

She as well as Anna and her friends walked in the same direction: towards their first neighbor Mrs Vaughan’s house. But Allison walked behind and kept her distance from them. And she stopped when Anna and her friends were near Mrs Vaughan’s house.

Just then, Mrs Vaughan looked out of her window. She noticed that Allison was being excluded by Anna and her friends. She knew it was probably because of Allison’s poor dress. She immediately felt pity for Allison, who often helped her and other neighbors. She decided to give Allison much more candy as a reward and teach Anna and her friends a lesson.

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2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

When Anna and her friends knocked on her door, Mrs Vaughan opened it.

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Anna looked up and said, “Our clothes are more beautiful! But you gave Allison more candy! Why?”

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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。

3D bio-printing inside the human body could be possible thanks to a new soft robot. The device features    1    printing head directly mounted onto the tip of a soft robotic arm. This printing head,     2     consists of soft artificial muscles that allow it to move in three directions, works very    3    (similar) to conventional desktop 3D printers.

The soft robotic arm can bend and twist and can be made at any length    4     (require). The printing nozzle (喷嘴) can be programmed to print per-determined shapes, or operated manually.     5     addition, a research team used a machine learning-based controller which can aid the printing process.

The team    6    (explain) how the device could potentially be used as an all-in-one surgical tool to perform a range of    7    (function). They said this could be especially important in surgery    8    (remove) certain cancers.

The ability to carry out such multi-functional procedures    9    (demonstrate) on a pig’s intestine (肠) last month and the researchers say the results show that the device is a     10    (promise)candidate for the future development of an all-in-one endoscopic surgical tool. The next stage of development for the system is in vivo (活体的) testing on living animals to demonstrate its practical use.