1 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. efficiently	B. leading	C. working	D. attracted	AB. travelling	AC. managed
AD. talented	BC. opportunities	BD. competition	CD. business	ABC. measure

New York City and Shanghai

New York City is always thought of as the financial capital of the world. However, there is     1    . London has been challenging this, and there is an emerging challenger from the east, the city of Shanghai. Shanghai has become the base for many international and     2     Chinese companies. In fact, Shanghai has been called the New York of the East. One thing that is vibrant (充满活力的) in both cities is the strong sense of a     3     environment.

New York is famous for its financial market on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Index (道琼斯指数) is the measure used to record how stocks and shares in companies are rising or falling in value. It is also famous for its international business network. New York financial service companies have a huge number of     4     people who can make decisions quickly, with profit as the main focus. Shanghai, like New York, has also     5     the best of the talent, but from Asia. Many leading companies are also establishing their Asian regional headquarters in Shanghai. The main    6     of the stock market’s rise and fall in China is the Shanghai Composite Index (上证综合指数).

For people     7     in these cities, the main forms of transport are subways and bus networks. Shanghai’s subway system is much newer than New York’s, but for both cities, good transportation is the key to keeping them as financial centers. The world of finance demands that people are on time and can travel     8     from meeting to meeting.

When it comes to business culture though, there are many differences. In China,     9     are often based on long-term relationships which have grown over a period of time. However, modern trading and investment often requires quick decisions, so this is a difference that has to be    10    . In New York, business relationships are often based on similar interests and investments.

2 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

American Indians

When you think of a typical American, whom do you picture? A pretty white American like Taylor Swift? Or a handsome black American like Barack Obama or basketball star Kobe Bryant? In fact, there was a time when the average American looked like     1     of these people.

Back in the year 1500, the average American was a brown-skinned hunter-gatherer who probably rode a horse and wore clothing     2     (make) from animal skins. Today, these people—who tend to be connected with their individual tribes (部落) such as Iriquos, Apache and Navajo—are referred to     3     “Native Americans”,   “American Indians” or simply “Indians”.

You     4     say that you have never even heard of American Indians. That’s because there aren’t very many left.     5     (settle) in North America, the settlers from Europe were involved in bitter conflict with the native peoples. After the Revolutionary War, conflicts with natives continued as the states were created     6     would later make up the US. American Indians were treated as a military “enemy”     7     1924, when the few Indians still alive at that point     8     (award) US citizenship.

    9     the story of the American Indians has been a sad one, these people’s legacies (遗产) are still felt every day in the US. There are many US geographical names     10     (come) from Indian languages and numerous successful academics and other important US leaders descended (是……的后裔) from Indians.

3 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. spread       B. predicted       C. boomed       D. redefined       E. agricultural        F. trade G. accelerated       H. continued       I. exchanging       J. seeking       K. continents

Globalization is term used to describe how     1     and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place.

When did globalization begin? Many scholars say it started with Columbus’s voyage 10 the New World in 1492. People traveled to nearby and faraway places well before Columbus’s voyage,     2     their ideas, products, and customs along the way. The Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes across China, Central Asia, and the Mediterranean used between 50 B. C. E. and 250 C. E. is perhaps the most well-known early example. As globalization     3    , new technologies played a key role in the Silk Road trade. Advances in metallurgy (冶金术) led to the creation of coins; advances in transportation led to the building of roads connecting the major empires of the day; and increased     4     production meant more food could be trafficked between locales. Along with Chinese silk, Roman glass, and Arabian spices, ideas such as Buddhist beliefs and the secrets of paper-making also     5     via these tendrils of trade.

Unquestionably, these types of exchanges were     6     in the Age of Exploration, when European explorers were     7     new sea routes to the spices and silks of Asia. Again, technology played an important role in the maritime trade routes that flourished between old and newly discovered     8     Trade and idea exchange now extended to a previously unconnected part of the world, where ships carrying plants, animals, and Spanish silver between the Old World and the New also carried Christian missionaries.

The web of globalization     9     to spread out through the Age of Revolution, when ideas about liberty and equality spread like fire from America to France to Latin America and beyond. It rode the waves of industrialization, colonization, and war through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, powered by the invention of factories, railways, steamboats, cars, and planes.

With the Information Age, globalization went into overdrive. Advances in computer and communications technology launched a new global era and     10     what it meant to be “connected.”

4 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage with no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Sue and Johnsy are friends and they live in one studio.

But Johnsy kept her bed. The doctor thought there was uncertain hope and he couldn’t see any confidence in Johnsy.

At the same time, Johnsy lay on the bed, looking through the small window and counted “10、9” and “8、7......” She said feebly. When the last leaf fell she must go.

Sue heard that and felt sad. She went to invite old Behrman, who was a painter with no achievement. And he always talked of his coming masterpiece.

Behrman heard the story of Johnsy from Sue.

After the beating rain and fierce wind that had endured through the night, there was still one leaf. And another terrible night, it was still here. Johnsy lay for a long time looking at it. Then she saw the life’s energy and wanted to live.

With the help of doctor and Sue, Johnsy was out of danger. But the bad news was that the old Behrman died of pneumonia. And they knew the secret that the last leaf was just a painting, drew by Behramn in that terrible night.

This is really a beautiful and sorrowful story. We can give other people energy, hope and love. You can see something glittering in our heart.

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5 . Dr charlotte Uhlenbroek recently returned to London after filming her second series, Jungle. It was difficult, 19-week trip, during which she explored the rainforests of Borneo, the Amazon and Congo, travelling around using variety of means of transport, including hot-air balloons and canoes. “I’m interested in the way animals communicate with each other. It was sometimes dangerous making the program -- I even went swimming with piranha(水虎鱼)fish. But the worst thing was insects. On one occasion I had 70 sand-fly bites on my arm. Luckily I didn’t get sick. I prefer not to take tablets every day, but if I get a fever, take some medicine immediately.”

Filming the series was exciting, but also frightening at times. Her most challenging experience was climbing a 100-meter tree in Borneo, as she has a great fear of heights. “I had to keep pulling myself further and further upwards. All I wanted to do was get down again. Suddenly the safety equipment didn’t look very strong and I thought that my ropes would break and I would crash to the ground.”

What did she enjoy most about returning to London? “When I’ve been away in hot uncomfortable conditions for a long time I dream about an ice-cold drink and my bed at home! But the thing I look forward to the most is nice long showers. There wasn’t much water in some of the places we visited and I worried that I was using it all up and not leaving any for my colleagues on the camera team! ”

1. Charlotte found climbing the tree in Borneo so frightening because________.

A．she hates being in high places	B．she was unable to get down
C．her equipment suddenly broke	D．she slipped and fell to the ground

2. What does Charlotte miss most when she is away filming?

A．Air-conditioning.	B．An unlimited water supply.
C．A comfortable bed.	D．Iced drinks.

3. Which best describes the TV series Jungle?

A．The forest floor has hundreds of different insects-let Charlotte be your guide to these fascinating creatures.

B．Making her first television appearance, Charlotte explores some of the wildest places on earth.

C．Charlotte looks at ways in which the animals of the rainforest manage to live beside their human neighbors.

D．Insects, piranha fish, hot-air balloons--it’s all in one day’s work for Charlotte in her latest series.

6 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. advocates       B. inevitable       C. invest       D. movement       E. placed       F. pointless G. present       H. pressure       I. progress       J. recruiting       K. through

Bright Future for Girls

Worldwide, 130 million girls are out of school. At the United Nations two years ago, leaders promised to ensure every girl receives 12 years of education by 2030, but contributions from donor countries have declined. Some days are hard—but I refuse to believe the world will always be as it is;     1     is happening.

At the Malala Fund, we are investing in educators in developing countries. These     2     understand the challenges girls face in their communities—child marriage, poverty, conflicts and wars—and are best     3     to develop solutions. In Afghanistan, they are     4     female teachers to work in rural schools. In Nigeria, they are running clubs to help girls resist family     5     to drop out and marry as young as 13 years old. In Lebanon, they are developing e-learning programs to teach STEM skills to Syrian refugee girls. I believe we can see every girl in school in my lifetime.

I believe in girls like Najlaa, who are leading the fight for themselves and their sisters. I believe in the millions of people who support our     6     . Earliest this year, someone asked me, “After everything you've been     7     and everything you've seen, how do you keep yourself from being hopeless?” After talking for a moment about all the things to be grateful for in my own life, I said, “I think it's     8     to be hopeless. If you are hopeless, you waste your     9     and your future.” If we want a brighter future—for them and for ourselves—we must     10     in girls today.

7 . An interesting question in humankind’s development is, when did we begin to think critically? In other words, when did we turn from animals focused only on the daily struggle to avoid starvation to humans who could think symbolically about the word around us? However, answering this question is not easy as thinking leaves no fossils to discover.

A commonsense assumption is that higher levels of thought go hand-in-hand with verbal language, because higher thinking, such as creative thought, would naturally seek a means of expression. So tracing the development of language could give an approximate idea of when humans began to think critically.

Interestingly, we do have some fossil evidence related to speech. Animals whose larynx (voice box) is placed high in their throats are unable to produce the variety of sounds necessary for speech. Fossil bones tell us that in early humans, the larynx was originally high in the throat. However, by about 200,000 years ago, it had moved lower in the throat. This lowering provided a larger sound chamber (the space in the throat and the mouth) in which passing air could be controlled by the tongue, making a wide range of sounds and rhythms possible.

So humans were physically able to speak around 200,000 years ago, but when did they actually start doing so? Estimates range from 35,000 to 100,000 years ago. But with no physical evidence of ancient language use, we need another approach to determine more precisely when humans began to speak - and to think critically.

Professor Richard Klein of Stanford University suggests that art may be the key. After all, ability to create or appreciate art is a uniquely human train. If ancient humans had the imagination to create a work of art (which in itself is a means of communication), then it seems highly likely that they would possess the primary means of communication: language. This suggests that the first works of art can be considered indicators of when language and critical though began.

Until recently the earliest art was believed to be cave paintings, carved figures, and jewelry found in southwestern Europe and thought to data from about 40,000 years ago. This suggested that humans first became capable of critical thought about 40,000 years ago. However, this time frame was recently overturned by an exciting discovery in South Africa. Anthropologist Christ Henshilwood spent more than ten years exploring a cave there. He found many well-made tools, but more intriguing were the 8,000 pieces of ochre, a soft stone that can be turned into paint. Hensilwood’s breakthrough came in 1999 when he found an ochre piece with lines cut in a careful pattern. In other words, it was deliberate artistic design. Henshilwood had found the oldest piece of art yet, its date of origin set at 70,000 years — nearly 30,000 years before the art in Europe.

Based on Henshilwood’s discovery, it seems that humans began to speak and think critically at least 70,000 years ago.

1. ______ made humans physically able to speak.

A．The evolution of the tongue

B．The lowering of the larynx

C．The appearance of various sounds

D．The higher thinking

2. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．No other animals than humans can enjoy art.

B．Before 1999, Africa was thought to be the origin of art.

C．Without creative though, humans would be unable to speak.

D．Evidence of ancient language use was once found in Europe.

3. According to the passage, the oldest deliberate artistic design dates back to ______ years ago.

A．30,000

B．40,000

C．70,000

D．200,000

4. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A．How did humans stop struggling for starvation?

B．When did humans become able to create art?

C．How did humans communicate more freely?

D．When did humans begin to think?

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.

A．She asked classmates for advice.	B．She made use of online courses.
C．She took some short university courses.	D．She majored in film making.

2.

A．Because they are important but neglected.

B．Because she majors in environment at university.

C．Because they will definitely attract more followers.

D．Because she is dissatisfied with the previous videos.

3.

A．Guilty.	B．Surprised.
C．Inspired.	D．Disappointed.

4.

A．It’s advisable to keep a low key online.

B．A successful vlogger must be knowledgeable.

C．New ideas help arouse interest among viewers.

D．Updating frequency is the most important to keep viewers.

9 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1.

A．Exhibition.	B．Facilities.
C．Entertainment.	D．Films.

2.

A．It’s meaningful but no fun.

B．It’s entertaining and instructive.

C．It’s innovative and well-received.

D．It’s informative but has its limitation.

3.

A．A film review on zoos.

B．A report about a film release.

C．A survey on zoological facilities.

D．A documentary about endangered species.

10 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.

A．They are both worried about the negative impact of technology.

B．They differ greatly in their knowledge of modern technology.

C．They disagree about the future of AI technology.

D．They work in different fields of AI technology.

2.

A．Stimulating and motivating.

B．Simply writing AI software.

C．More demanding and requiring special training.

D．Less time-consuming and focusing on creation.

3.

A．There could be jobs nobody wants to do.

B．Digital life could replace human civilization.

C．Humans would be tired of communicating with one another.

D．Old people would be taken care of solely by unfeeling robots.

4.

A．It will be smarter than human beings.

B．Chips will be inserted in human brains.

C．It will take away humans’ jobs altogether.

D．Life will become like a science fiction film.