1 . We are surrounded   by stories of sadness, cruelty and violence. Evil arrests our   __ . But there are also many____stories of selfless goodness. They could___ go unnoticed, but such acts can also change lives forever.

My brothers and I __ with a story of something that happened to my father,   who___ seven years ago. It is a story of family tragedy and astonishing, quiet   kindness. My father’s father died when my father was 11. His mother was a widow at 34, and as an only child, he___ much of his grief alone. In   accordance   with   traditional___ , he began to walk very early to church each morning to say prayers in his father’s___ .

At the end of his first week, he___ that the ritual director of the synagogue, Mr. Einstein, walked past his home just as he left to walk to church . Mr. Einstein, ___ advanced in years explained, “Your home is on the way to the church. I thought it might be fun to have some___ . That way, I don’t have to walk alone.”For a year my father and Mr. Einstein walked through the New England __ , the   humidity of summer and the snow of winter. They talked about life and loss and, for a while, my father was not so___ .

After my parents married and my oldest brother was born, my father___ Mr. Einstein, now well into his 90s, and asked if Mr. Einstein could meet his new wife and child. Mr. Einstein___ , but said that in view of his age my father would have to come to him.

My father once wrote about what happened: “The journey was long and___ . His home, by car, was ______   twenty minutes away. I drove in tears as I   ______   what he     had done. He had walked for an hour to my home so that I would not have to be alone each morning. … By the simplest of gestures, the___ of caring, he took a frightened child and he___ him with confidence and with faith back into life.”

1.

A．doubt

B．goal

C．attention

D．dream

2.

A．confusing

B．exciting

C．amazing

D．moving

3.

A．widely

B．easily

C．clearly

D．particularly

4.

A．grew up

B．took off

C．broke away

D．gave in

5.

A．passed away

B．fell down

C．died away

D．get away

6.

A．burden

B．took

C．carried

D．bore

7.

A．behaviour

B．practice

C．habit

D．motion

8.

A．support

B．favour

C．memory

D．place

9.

A．noticed

B．discovered

C．expected

D．predicted

10.

A．usually

B．even

C．still

D．already

11.

A．company

B．experience

C．interest

D．comfort

12.

A．fields

B．seasons

C．scenes

D．months

13.

A．different

B．lively

C．alone

D．simple

14.

A．rang back

B．worried about

C．came across

D．called up

15.

A．promised

B．refused

C．agreed

D．arrived

16.

A．accidental

B．complicated

C．short

D．satisfied

17.

A．fully

B．regularly

C．commonly

D．hardly

18.

A．confirmed

B．saw

C．realized

D．told

19.

A．faith

B．behavior

C．kindness

D．act

20.

A．held

B．led

C．warned

D．protected

2 . Why doesn’t the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over during its over 800 years history? To understand their situation, it's helpful to understand why the tower tilted in the first place.

In the 12th century, the wealthy maritime republic of Pisa set about turning its cathedral square into a magnificent landmark. In 1173, construction began on a free-standing bell tower. The engineers and architects of the time were masters of their craft but knew far less about the ground they stood on. Less than five years later, the tower's southern side was already underground. If workers added more weight, the pressure from upper stories would sink the structure and fatally increase the lean. But construction stopped at the fourth story for nearly a century, which allowed the soil to settle.

When construction began again in 1272, workers compensated for the tower's minor tilt by making the next few floors taller on the southern side. But the weight of the extra masonry made that side sink even deeper. By the time they completed the seventh floor and bell chamber, the angle of the tilt was 1.6 degrees.

In 1838, engineers dug a walkway around the base to examine the sunken foundation. But removing the supporting sand only worsened the tilt. In 1935, the Italian Corps of Engineers injected mortar to strengthen the base. However, the mortar wasn't evenly distributed throughout the foundation, resulting in another sudden drop and moving the tower closer to its tipping point.

With exact data and new computing technology, in 1992, the construction team drilled diagonal tunnels to remove 38 cubic meters of soil from under the tower's north end. Then, they temporarily counterbalanced the structure, with 600 tons of lead ingots before anchoring the base with steel cables. More than six centuries after its construction, the tower was finally straightened to a tilt of about four degrees.

Today the tower stands at 55– or 56– meters tall, and it should remain stable for at least 300 years as a monument to the beauty of imperfection.

1. The passage is developed mainly in the form of ______.

A．time and events	B．definition and description
C．contrast and conclusion	D．examples and statements

2. What does the underlined phrase “compensated for” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．arranged for

B．made up for

C．called for

D．accounted for

3. What has finally led the tower to approach closer to its tipping point?

A．Engineers’ misjudgment of the soil under the tower

B．Making the next few floors taller on the southern side

C．Removing the supporting sand from the sunken foundation

D．The unevenly distributed mortar throughout the foundation

4. What can be a suitable title for the passage?

A．Who is to blame for the leaning?

B．Why doesn't the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over?

C．How did the Leaning Tower of Pisa get its name?

D．Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over？

3 . 文中共有 10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。
删除：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改 10 处，多者（从第 11 处起）不计分。

Thanks to China’s anti-poverty policy, great changes have been taken place in my hometown in the past decade, especial in the living conditions. Take my grandparents’ home in the countryside as a example. They used to live in a small house with little furniture, and now they have moved into a two-storied building with modern electric equipments. In the past, we had to ask someone to write to my parents to keep contact. But they each has a mobile phone now, that makes the communication more convenient. They even have learned to use WeChat talk to us. And they mostly drive out instead of walk or ride bicycles at times.

4 . Scott loved his basketball team and always played hard for it. Last year, they had won the state finals. This year, they were finding things much ___________. Three _________ were left before the finals and Scott's team needed to _______ them all to go to the finals. They made two but near the _______ of the third game, they were behind by six points. Scott had also hurt his_______ when he fell on the court.

''Are you okay to _______?'' asked his coach. Scott looked at the injury on his knee.

''I'll be _______,'' he said.

Scott knew the _________ of his decision. He could hurt his knee even more. Or he could ___________ not to play.   He knew that not playing might cause his team to________. As he rested before the final quarter, he decided to play through the pain. He________ that he was going to win this game for the team he________.

As the quarter began, he caught the ball after the other __________ made a mistake. He bounced the ball down the court and threw the ball into the basket. Scott ________ towards his coach. They were only four points behind now. Scott kept playing __________ during the final quarter. He __________ scored a three-point shot from the center of the court. With just two________ left, Scott's team was still one point behind. Scott was passed the ball by his teammate. He ____________ the pain in his knee and ran forward. He ____________ towards the end of the court. His feet left the ground. He sent his shot into the basket and earned his side two points. The final whistle (哨音) blew seconds after. Scott's________ decision had helped his team reach the finals.

1.

A．cheaper

B．easier

C．faster

D．harder

2.

A．players

B．games

C．meetings

D．weeks

3.

A．challenge

B．find

C．change

D．win

4.

A．middle

B．start

C．end

D．break

5.

A．knee

B．head

C．hand

D．foot

6.

A．practice

B．leave

C．continue

D．watch

7.

A．proud

B．slow

C．honest

D．fine

8.

A．risks

B．mistakes

C．benefits

D．reasons

9.

A．imagine

B．choose

C．expect

D．learn

10.

A．worry

B．argue

C．stop

D．lose

11.

A．found

B．agreed

C．felt

D．doubted

12.

A．hated

B．trained

C．loved

D．helped

13.

A．friend

B．team

C．judge

D．coach

14.

A．smiled

B．shouted

C．cried

D．returned

15.

A．badly

B．well

C．slowly

D．fast

16.

A．never

B．even

C．always

D．almost

17.

A．teams

B．quarters

C．points

D．minutes

18.

A．ignored

B．noticed

C．remembered

D．discovered

19.

A．looked

B．walked

C．headed

D．jumped

20.

A．daring

B．wrong

C．careful

D．foolish

5 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共   有 10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改 10 处，多者（从第 11 处起）不计分。

I went to Mount Fanjing with my classmates two years ago. That impressed me was climbing the mountain.It was the late spring and it was a little cold in the mountain. The mountain was such steep that we could hardly climb to the top of the mountain. In the process of climbing, I was too tired to go on climbing. But when I saw other student trying their best to climb, I made up my mind to be the first one to climb to the top. Then I picked up a branch of a tree to support me. Unluckily, I slipped and fell down. At the critically moment,one classmate hold me so I did not fall off the mountain. Under their help, I finally climbed to the top of the mountain.

I was very exciting because it was the first time I had climbed a mountain. Meanwhile, I understood that we should help each other when we were in trouble. This trip came to an end soon, but it still encourages me overcome the difficulties I face.

6 . 假定你叫李华，你的英语笔友Steven来信说他和同学因为小事发生了争执，都不愿相互理睬，他想知道如何与同学和睦相处，请根据以下要点写一封回信。
1.表示安慰；
2.如何解决该矛盾；
3.如何与同学和睦相处。
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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7 . 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。

Laozi is     1     philosopher of ancient   China. He is best known   as the Author       of Tao Te Ching, which led him to be traditionally considered the founder of Philosophical Taoism. He     2     (respect) as a deity in most religious forms of Taoist philosophy,     3     often refers to Laozi as Lord Lao. Tao Te Ching, often simply called Laozi after its famous author, describes the dao as the source and ideal of all     4     (exist): It is invisible, but not mysterious,immensely powerful yet     5     (extreme) modest, and is the root of all things. According to the book, humans have no special place within the dao,     6     (be) just one of its many (ten thousand) manifestations(表现). People have desires and free will, and thus they are able to alter their own nature. Many,     7    , act “ unnaturally",upsetting the natural balance of the dao. The Tao Te Ching intends to lead     8     ( it) readers to a "return" to their natural state, to be in harmony     9    dao.

As with most other ancient Chinese philosophers, Laozi often explained his ideas by ways of paradox, analogy,appropriation of ancient sayings, repetition,similarity , rhyme, and rhythm, which makes the writing difficult     10     (understand) .

8 . As a Hollywood film star in the 1930s and 1940s, Hedy Lamarr at one point was called "the most beautiful woman in the world." What she was less known for was her scientific intellect.

Lamarr had a natural curiosity about the world around her. As young as age 5, she would spend time taking apart and rebuilding her music box to understand how it worked. But her technical mind was overshadowed by her looks-at 16, she got her   first film role and quickly became an international icon.

As her acting career continued to take off during World War II, Lamarr became restless, feeling that she should do more to contribute to the Allies' war efforts. Together with her friend Antheil, Lamarr came up with a groundbreaking new form of wireless communication known as spread spectrum(光谱).The concept was to create a wireless signal that could hop from frequency to frequency, making it impossible to track or jam.They received a patent for their technology in 1942, but the military refused to implement(实施) it in their war effort.

The technology sat unused for years, until one day the military revived it in the 1960s and the system "spread like wildfire."It became the backbone of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and a range of wireless communication mechanisms we rely on today.By the time the technology was implemented, Lamarr's patent had been due, and she never received a single payment for her revolutionary invention.

Hedy Lamarr played the role she was expected to play in Hollywood — a beautiful object to admire on the big screen.If she yielded to society's expectations in other ways, communication as we know it could look completely different today.

1. What was special about Hedy Lamarr?

A．She was the most beautiful woman in the world at one time.

B．She was a naughty girl when she was young.

C．She was gracefully beautiful as well as scientifically intellectual.

D．She decide to quit her acting career after World War II broke out.

2. What was the main reason for Lamarr to invent spread spectrum?

A．She was no longer a popular actress.

B．She wanted to make some contribution to the Allies' war efforts.

C．She was out of condition and couldn’t continue her acting career.

D．Her friend Antheil asked her to do so.

3. When did Lamarr’s patent come into use ?

A．During World War II	B．In 1942
C．In the 1960s	D．In recent years

4. Why did the author write the text?

A．To remember a great inventor.	B．To introduce an invention.
C．To encourage women to invent.	D．To stress the importance of Lamarr’s invention.

9 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式，并填在答题卡的相应位置。

Dunhuang Sand Painting — A Call to Cherish (珍惜) Art

Dunhuang, an ancient Chinese city on the Silk   Road, has     1     number of historical attractions and the   world’s most treasured grotto (石窟) art.

Recently, a sand painting was finished at Mount Mingsha,    2     (make) a sharp contrast to the surrounding desert. As the sun rose and set, the painting gradually faded away within a day after       3     (remove) canvas (帆布) over the painting.

This work was accomplished by a young team of    4     (artist) led by Liu Jie, an expert in solid colour sand painting. He    5     (hope) the unique piece would remind people that art can easily fade away without proper protection, and said that the great culture of Dunhuang should be protected carefully.

“It is very meaningful to be   part   of   this   campaign to   raise awareness. Hopefully, watching   the       6       (disappear) of   the painted sand can motivate a desire to   cherish what is   precious and   translate   it    7     action,” Liu said.

The good news is    8     scientists as well as visiting scholars from across the world are drawn to the caves. Thanks to international cooperation and advanced technology, Mogao’s relics have been    9     (successful)   preserved. All these show how Mogao has built bridges of common understanding and share its    10     (culture) heritage with the world.

10 . The days of dragging heavy luggage through an airport may be over thanks to a new robotic suitcase that follows its owner like a loyal dog.

Called Cowa Robot, the $650 carry-on suitcase moves on its own at a top speed of nearly 4.5mph and can find its way back to its owner within a distance of 164 feet.

To activate (启动) it, all the user has to do is press a hidden button in the handle and start walking — it will automatically keep up thanks to high-tech sensors in the case and a tracker bracelet (手环) worn by the traveler. High-tech sensors in the case and a bracelet make the Cowa Robot stays around 2 feet behind its owner.

Designed by a Shanghai-based startup, Cowa Robot was built with the latest in robotics to avoid objects in its path and actively look for its owner if it gets separated. The carry-on case has a built-in camera sensor to find its owner and it connects to a smartphone app via Bluetooth.

It follows at a 45-degree radius and can be programmed to follow a specific path, and it has a handle so it can be dragged when the airport is too crowded. The 10lb suitcase has four USB ports and a built-in battery that can charge a passenger’s mobile phone or tablet, and has a separate section for laptops or other devices. It is made from a sturdy German Bayer PC material to protect its contents and has a logo that lights up.

1. The suitcase will keep up with its owner because it is equipped with .

A．a handle and wheels	B．sensors and a tracker bracelet
C．a mobile phone and a tablet	D．a smartphone and a log

2. Where can’t the suitcase probably work well according to the text?

A．Inside an airport.	B．In a station.
C．In a crowded place.	D．In a noisy place.

3. What does the text probably come from?

A．A technology report.	B．A guidebook.
C．An announcement.	D．An advertisement.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．A suitcase that travels fast.

B．A suitcase that looks like a dog.

C．A robotic suitcase that follows its owner.

D．A more expensive suitcase for travelers.