Last Saturday, Jordon was taking a walk in the park near his home when he noticed a woman with a boy of about seven years old. When Jordon passed them, he heard the woman yell, “How stupid you are! You are good at nothing. ”Jordon stopped and looked at the little boy. The boy said nothing. He just stood there, looking upset.
Jordon was reminded of his English teacher Mrs Mary in middle school. He was often told that he was good at nothing. But one day it all changed. One day, in an English writing class, Mrs Mary asked them to read a novel. They were asked to write a new chapter of the novel after they finished reading the book. A few days later, Jordon handed in his story. But the next day to his surprise, the comment (评价) “well done” from Mrs Mary came into view the moment he turned to the page where the story was written. When Jordon read that, he almost burst into tears. That day after he returned home, he wrote a short story and gave it to Mrs Mary the next morning. And again he was praised.
Jordon became very interested in writing. He often wrote short stories and asked Mrs Mary to read them and correct them for him. Mrs Mary always corrected them for him and gave him good advice to improve them. One year later, he was no longer that boy who lacked self-confidence. He gained his confidence and was hopeful about his future. Several years after graduating from college, he had his first book published and became famous as a writer in his country. And he owed his success to Mrs Mary's encouragement. Without her encouragement, his life might be very different now.
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Encouraged by his own life story, Jordon decided to do something for that boy.
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Harrison’s home was in a small village. He was a 17-year-old high school student who walked to and from school by himsclf every day. He hadn’t had many friends since growing up, so he always felt lonely.
On his way to his school, he needed to pass through a large woods where birds sang and flowers bloomed. Animals kept each other company and played in the woods, which contrasted (形成对比) sharply with Harrison’s loneliness. Whenever he saw these sights, he longed to make new friends with whom he could play.
One day, on his way from his school, Harrison spotted a red object in a tree. When he got closer, it turned out to be a balloon with a string (细绳) tied to it. The balloon’s stringwas wrapped around a branch, making it impossible to fly away. Just as Harrison was getting bored, he reached up to untie the balloon. He thought it was just a balloon, but then herealized there seemed to be something inside the balloon.
Out of curiosity, Harrison slowly untied the balloon and saw a piece of paper in it. It was a letter, but it was a little hard to read. He picked up the letter and put it in the sunlightfalling from the woods and read it aloud:
If you have found this letter, it means my balloon finally reaches the destination. I used the balloon to see how far my letter would travel. I want this balloon to fly to a teenager like me and I hope to be friends with you. I launched it from Wisconsin Academy on May 1. Please write back to me and tell me where and when you found it. Besides, I’m happy to know something about you.
Sincerely,
Joe Smiths
After reading the letter, Harrison felt unusually excited. He couldn’t believe that hecould receive a letter in the woods. He wanted to write back to Joe right away, so he started running home.
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As soon as Harrison got home, he ran into his room.
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A few weeks later, Harrison received a letter from Joe.
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1. 元(一)月21日到上海后入住预定酒店；
2. 第二天、第三天去上海各地游玩，如迪士尼乐园、东方明珠、科技馆等；
3. 元月24日乘坐高铁返回。
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2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
参考词汇：
Disneyland(迪士尼乐园); the Oriental Pearl Tower(东方明珠); Shanghai Science and Technology Museum(上海科技馆); high speed railway(高铁)
Dear Lucy,
How is everything going?
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Yours,
Li Hua
1.明智上网的重要性；
2.提出具体建议（两到三条）。
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Be Wise Internet Users
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Willie' s aunt sent him for a birthday present a little writing book. There was a place in the book for a pencil. Willie thought a great deal of this little book, and always kept it in his pocket.
One day, his mother was very busy, and he called his dog, and said, “Come, Caper, let us have a play." When Willie' s mother missed him, she went to the door and looked out, and could not see him anywhere； but she knew that Caper was with him, and thought they would come back before long. She waited an hour, and still they did not come. When she came to the gate by the road, she met Mr. Lee, Willie's father, and told him how long Willie had been gone. Mr. Lee thought he must have gone to sleep under the trees. So they went to all the trees under which Willie was in the habit of playing, but he was not here to be found. By this time the sun had gone down the news that Willie was lost soon spread over the neighborhood, and all the men and women turned out to hunt. They hunted all night. The next morning the neighbors were gathered round, and all were trying to think what to do next, when Caper came bounding into the room.
There was a string tied round his neck, and a bit of paper tied to it. Mr. Lee, took the paper, and saw that it was a letter from Willie, He read it aloud. It said, "0, father! Come to me. I am in the big hole in the pasture (牧场)."
Everybody ran at once to the far corner of the pasture； and there was Willie, alive and well in the shaft (通风井). Oh, how glad he was when his father caught him in his arms, and lifted him out!
Now I will tell you how Willie came to be in the shaft and the whole story. He and Caper went to the pasture field, and came to the edge of the shaft and sat down. In bending over to see how deep it was, he lost his balance and fell in.
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He tried very hard to get out, but could not.
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When he awoke, it was morning, and he began to think of a way to get out.
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Alexis Vaughan, 17, sat quietly in the passenger seat of her dad's car. She stared out the window at the Preston, Idaho, cornfields.
Alexis, a high school student, let her eyes lazily scan the landscape for wildlife. Still, she was terrified when a deer came into view about 200 yards in front of them, just a few feet off the road. "Dad, there's a deer, there!" Alexis said, rolling down the window for a better look. It was a three-point buck (雄鹿) — a male deer with sharp, three-pronged antlers (角) on each side of its head.
As the car moved closer, Alexis saw that the buck's head was bent toward the ground. Then she heard a scream. A few seconds later, she saw an arm fly up near the buck's head. Alexis realized the buck was attacking a woman. Sue Panter, a 44-year-old mother, had been out for her morning run. The buck had come out from the tall corn and began following her. Having lived in rural Idaho for years, Sue knew that most bucks got frightened by humans. But this buck edged closer, even when she threw at it with a handful of gravels (石子).
Sue went to pick up a log to use for self-defense, and the buck attacked her. It lifted her with its antlers (角) and threw her into the air. Sue could feel the horns punctured (刺穿) her leg and blood flowed down her leg. Within seconds, the buck had pushed her off the road and into the cornfield.
When Alexis and her father pulled up, the buck was rolling Sue like a rag doll. Alexis looked into the woman's terrified eyes, and before her father had even stopped the car, the 104 pound teenager jumped quickly out of the car and down the slope toward the buck. She was kicking and hitting it to get its attention. Then Michael, her father, who had followed his daughter, wrestled the buck away from the women by holding the antlers.
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7 . The notion of building brand personality is promoted by Starbucks as a part of company culture to embed meaning in their products and thus attract more customers.
Starbucks literally changed the definition of “a good cup of coffee”. For Starbucks, the brand had three elements: coffee,
Almost all Starbucks stores were corporately owned and controlled. Starbucks prided itself on the “Starbucks Experience”,
The green Starbucks logo is a mermaid that looks like the end of the double image of the sea. It was designed by Terry Heckler, who got the
Starbucks makes the typical American culture gradually broken down into elements of
But the
| A．people | B．managers | C．customers | D．clients |
| A．assured | B．promised | C．ensured | D．predicted |
| A．emergency | B．environment | C．employment | D．customer |
| A．consisted of | B．benefited from | C．contributed to | D．headed for |
| A．going beyond | B．coming across | C．making up | D．depending on |
| A．With regard to | B．In addition to | C．Compared with | D．In terms of |
| A．general | B．reasonable | C．legal | D．fascinating |
| A．committed | B．alerted | C．subjected | D．required |
| A．negotiate | B．perform | C．conceal | D．escape |
| A．imagination | B．inspiration | C．patent | D．philosophy |
| A．creates | B．cultivates | C．credits | D．conveys |
| A．brand | B．logo | C．possession | D．experience |
| A．greedily | B．gently | C．persistently | D．indifferently |
| A．busy | B．easy | C．miserable | D．energetic |
| A．product | B．vision | C．essence | D．importance |
8 . 下面短文，根据文章的情节续写，使之构成―个完整的故事。
Eric was working in a selling business. He had been on the road visiting people for more than a month without going home. He couldn't wait to get back to see his wife and children. It was coming up on Mother's Day, and he usually tried to make it “back home", but this year he was just too busy and too tired. The day when he was driving in a small town, he saw a flower shop. He said to himself, "I know what I will do, I'll send my mother some roses ."
He stopped and went into the flower shop and saw a young man talking to the girl in it “How many roses can I get for fifty dollars. Ms.? " the boy asked. The girl was trying to explain that roses were expensive. Maybe the young man would be happy with something else.
"No. I have to have roses,'' he said, "my mom was badly sick last year and I didn't get to spend much time with her. 1 want to get something special. It has to be red roses, because that is her favorite." He was stubborn,
The girl in the shop looked up at Eric and was just shaking her head. Something inside of Eric was touched by the boy's voice. He wanted to get those roses so badly. Eric had been blessed（幸运的）in his business, and he looked at the girl and silently said that he would pay for the boy's roses.
The girl looked at the young man and said, "OK, I will give you a dozen red roses for your dollars.'' The young man almost jumped into the air. He took the flowers and ran down the store. It was worth more than fifty dollars just to see that kind of excitement.
Eric ordered his own flowers and asked the girl to have it delivered to his mother. After that, with a relief he drove down the road. Not long after his driving, he saw the boy walking to a graveyard（墓地）.
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2.至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
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4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
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Eric stopped his car and followed the young man.
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Eric went into the car in tears. .
9 . Getting stuck in a traffic jam is one of the most boring problems for people living in big cities.The fact that you’re moving so slowly leads too stress,anger and the wish that your car could just fly over the traffic like an airplane.
Soon,however, that wish could come true .On May 8, US car-renting company Uber showed off what it described as “the transportation mode of the future: on-demand air transport,”reported ABC News .
According to Nikhill Goel, head of products for Uber Air, the company's air taxi service may launch test flights in the US cities of Dallas and Los Angeles , as well as Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, as early as 2020. If everything goes according to plan, passengers will be able to fly to work by 2023 .
When the Olympics comes to Los Angeles in 2028 . Uber “expects to have hundreds , if not thousands , of its aircraft in the skies.” Goel told Newsweek .
So what would Uber's flying vehicles be like ?
They are small , electric aircraft that take off and land vertically (垂直地) , and they give off zero emissions (排放) and are quiet enough to operate in cities .
Just like an airplane , the vehicles will have fixed wings to help them glide . But while a helicopter has just one big fixed rotor (定量) . Uber's vehicles will have multiple rotors , which will help increase fuel efficiency (效率) while reducing emissions and noise.
Because of these fixed wines and multiple rotors . Uber’s flying taxis“should be quieter and safer than a helicopter.” reported ABC News .
However , the service still has a long way to go before it's ready to accept passengers.For example , to avoid any potential accidents . Uber is working with NASA to study air traffic control problems associated with low-flying aircraft. But just as Dubai's Mayor Betty Price said in a news release . “This program is revolutionary and future -oriented (面向未来的). ”
1. Uber 's flying taxis are expected to start to take passengers in______| A．2020 | B．2023 | C．2028 | D．2030 |
| A．They have one big rotor |
| B．They need more fuel to fly. |
| C．They have fewer fixed wings |
| D．They should be quieter and safer |
| A．They can be as efficient as airplanes and helicopters |
| B．They must be in larger number a few years later. |
| C．They nearly do no harm to the environment. |
| D．They will surely help passengers avoid accidents |
| A．Ubers plan to launch flying taxis |
| B．The advantages of Ubers flying taxis |
| C．Different opinions about Uber's flying taxis. |
| D．The difficulties Uber is facing in testing flying vehicles |
10 . More than loo genes are related with increased risk of developing schizophrenia (精神分裂症), bipolar disorder (躁郁症) and alcoholism (酗酒), confirms a large study published in the recent issue of the British scientific journal Nature.
The world’s largest study into the genetic basis of mental illnesses was led by researchers from British universities, including University College London (UCL), Cardiff University and King's College London (KCL).
Researchers believe that they are now much closer than before to understanding the complex biological causes, which make some people being at high risk of developing mental illnesses. They also believe that these findings could lead to new treatments.
The researchers analyzed the DNA of about 37,000 patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or alcoholism, and compared the smallest genetic changes to those found in about 113,000 healthy people. They then identified about 128 independent genetic variants (变体) at 108 locations on the human chromosomes (染色体) that contribute significantly to developing schizophrenia — 83 of these sites have never before been linked to the illness, according to scientists.
For example, people with the variant of the GRM3 gene, thought to be important in brain signaling, are around 2 to 3 times more likely to develop schizophrenia or alcohol dependence. The variant, which is found in approximately one in every 200 people, is also associated with a three times risk of developing bipolar disorder.
“We could be looking at the next big drug target for treating mental illness,” Professor David Curtis from UCL, co-author of the paper, said. “The work opens up new ways to prevent and treat mental illnesses by revealing the mechanisms involved in their development.”
1. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?| A．Researchers are disappointed at curing biological causes. |
| B．Researchers are worried about the complex biological causes. |
| C．Researchers have found the method of curing biological causes. |
| D．Researchers are confident for figuring out the complex biological causes. |
| A．there are 37,000 patients with mental illnesses in the world |
| B．most of the sites have never before been linked to mental illnesses |
| C．there is little difference between the patients and the healthy people |
| D．the cause of mental illnesses has nothing to do with the genetic changes |
| A．the variant of the GRM3 gene is important |
| B．the number of people with the variant of the GRM3 gene is large |
| C．the number of people with the variant of the GRM3 gene is small |
| D．people with the variant of the GRM3 gene aren’t likely to suffer schizophrenia |
| A．The importance of gene variants. |
| B．The research of gene variants. |
| C．The cause of mental illnesses. |
| D．Gene variants linked to mental illnesses. |
