1 . 假定你是红星中学高一学生李华。你的美国朋友Jim在给你的邮件中提到他对中国新近出现的一种共享单车“shared bikes”很感兴趣，并请你做个简要介绍。请你给Jim回信，内容包括：
1. 这种单车的使用方法（如：APP查看车辆、扫码开锁等）；
2. 这种单车的优势；
3. 你对这种单车的看法。
注意：
1. 词数大约100左右；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
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Dear Jim,
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Yours,

Li Hua

2 . 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。

"Pick up the pace!" said Amy's husband. "But I can't!" Amy said, her heart beating quickly inside. "I can't go any faster! Her husband encouraged her. "Yes, you can! You're making progress every day.”

To help Amy stay healthy, her husband had been running with her for over two years. Several years ago, Amy could barely walk down the stairs of her apartment building due to fatness caused by eating disorders. She realized the problem after a failed job interview and began walking to improve her ability to move. At first, she could walk for only 15 minutes at a time. But she pushed herself every day, walking 5 minutes longer than she did the day before until she walked for an hour and eventually two. For three years, Amy kept her walking habit, slowly and painstakingly building her body shape. Then she changed her walking shoes to running shoes about two years ago and became an excellent runner.

In March 2001, an advertisement invited people to nominate（提名）an ordinary person who inspired them to bring the Olympic flame to Salt Lake City as torch bearers（火炬手）or support runners.（Support runners serve as “guardians of the flame" and run with torch bearers along the journey.）Amy's experiences touched her husband, so he nominated her to be a torch bearer. The possibility to be selected was low, but Amy wanted to try.

Running taught Amy the importance of training for a race. She pictured herself running a race and crossing the finish line. For months, she ran through her neighborhood carrying a broken-off broom handle, feeling the weight of the torch. She waved at her neighbors, pretending they were cheering crowds. She also printed a picture of a torch bearer wearing the white uniform, replaced the face with a picture of hers, and put it onto her refrigerator door.

Every day, Amy imagined herself as a torch bearer. She was training for a historic running event. On September 26th, while on her daily run through her neighborhood, an express package arrived.

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。
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       Amy opened it and found a letter and a book on the Olympics.
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       "One of today's torch bearers can't run her part, " announced the relay organizer.

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3 . 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，续写的词数应为150左右。

Desiree, a 4-year-old girl, was sobbing quietly over her father, Ken, who had died nine months earlier. She was hugging a photograph of her father with her fingers running around his face. “Daddy”, she said softly, “Why won't you come back?”

Instead of gradually adjusting to her father's death, Desiree refused to accept it “Daddy will be home soon,” she'd tell her mother. “He's at work.” When she played with her toy telephone, she pretended she was chatting with her father “I miss you, Daddy,” she'd say. “When will you come back?” Desiree's situation made her mother worried.

Days later, it was Ken's birthday. “How will I send him a card?” Desiree asked her mother “How about if we tie a litter to a balloon.” her mother said, “and send it up to heaven?” Desiree's eyes immediately lit up.

Her mother took her to a store and Desiree picked out a balloon with HAPPY BIRTHDAY above a drawing of The Little Mermaid (美人鱼). Desire and her father had often watched it.

The child's eyes shone as they were on the way to Ken's grave. Then Desiree dictated (口述) a letter to her Dad. “Daddy, Happy birthday, I love you and miss you,” she rattled off (快速说). “I hope you get this and can write to me on my birthday in January.”

Her mother wrote the message and their address on a small piece of paper, which was then wrapped in plastic and tied to the end of the string on the balloon. Finally, Desiree let fly the balloon. For almost an hour, they watched the shining spot of silver grow smaller and smaller till disappear. “Now Dad's going to write back to me,” Desiree said confidently.

Every day since they'd flew the balloon, Desiree had asked her mother, “Do you think Daddy has my balloon yet?” Several weeks passed, and she stopped asking.

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One day, 3,000 miles away, Wade was on a duck hunt when suddenly something in the bush caught his eyes. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Desire's fifth birthday came and later on the afternoon, a package arrived.

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4 . When I first met Begay at Los Ninos Elementary on “King and Queen Day”, she was wearing a smile ear-to-ear.

This morning, though, Begay was______. The parent she had been trying to_____was a no-show again. Begay______needed to talk to her. Her boy was smart, but now about a year behind. She______there were problems at home. He was always late and had already missed too much school.

By 8 a.m. , kids were arriving, and Begay’s______quickly became a beehive（蜂窝）of activity. Forty-five minutes_______, the little boy finally walked in, shoulders sunk, head_______. Rather than______him in front of the class, Begay welcomed him warmly. He was testing Begay’s long-held_______that no child is a lost cause, no matter how______he seems. “It’s the unspoken       _____teachers start out with,” Begay said.

During lunch I sat down with Begay’s students and asked them what they liked about her.

“ She never gets angry, “ said one girl. A boy______:” She’s funny and likes telling jokes.”

Before we left the______, the shy, quiet girl next to me______,” She teaches me when I don’t want to learn.”

Her_______stayed with me. When I_______it with Begay, I told her that I felt it was a very       _____thing for a child to say. She agreed.

“They never______that to me.” said Begay, “But that’s what I_______. I want them to enjoy school. I want them to feel like someone_______them.”

1.

A．sensitive

B．worried

C．thrilled

D．energetic

2.

A．meet

B．investigate

C．enquire

D．praise

3.

A．gradually

B．occasionally

C．abruptly

D．desperately

4.

A．clarified

B．revealed

C．suspected

D．acknowledged

5.

A．classroom

B．school

C．canteen

D．house

6.

A．after

B．before

C．later

D．ago

7.

A．rose

B．bowed

C．nodded

D．shook

8.

A．disturbing

B．astonishing

C．capturing

D．embarrassing

9.

A．conclusion

B．dream

C．belief

D．ambition

10.

A．awesome

B．troubled

C．innocent

D．careless

11.

A．commitment

B．assumption

C．proposal

D．regulation

12.

A．rejected

B．declared

C．added

D．protested

13.

A．office

B．kitchen

C．playground

D．table

14.

A．shouted

B．whispered

C．cried

D．suggested

15.

A．comment

B．adventure

C．experience

D．discovery

16.

A．interpreted

B．promoted

C．shared

D．demonstrated

17.

A．fancy

B．comprehensive

C．crucial

D．meaningful

18.

A．do

B．express

C．guarantee

D．leave

19.

A．acquire

B．secure

C．accomplish

D．pursue

20.

A．believes in

B．stands by

C．tums against

D．fears for

5 .

It’s common knowledge that the woman in Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting seems to look back at observers, following them with her eyes no matter where they stand in the room. But this common knowledge turns out wrong.

A new study finds that the woman in the painting is actually looking out at an angle that’s 15. 4 degrees off to the observer’s right-well outside of the range that people normally believe when they think someone is looking right at them. In other words, said the study author, Horstmann, “She’s not looking at you. “ This is somewhat ironic, because the entire phenomenon of a person’s gaze (凝视) in a photograph or painting seeming to follow the viewer is called the “Mona Lisa effect” . That effect is absolutely real, Horstmann said. If a person is illustrated or photographed looking straight ahead, even people viewing the portrait from an angle will feel they are being looked at. As long as the angle of the person’s gaze is no more than about 5 degrees off to either side, the Mona Lisa effect occurs.

This is important for human interaction with on-screen characters. If you want someone off to the right side of a room to feel that a person on-screen is looking at him or her, you don’t cut the gaze of the character to that side-surprisingly, doing so would make an observer feel like the character isn’t looking at anyone in the room at all. Instead, you keep the gaze straight ahead.

Horstmann and his co-author were studying this effect for its application in the creation of artificial-intelligence avatars(虚拟头像) when Horstmann took a long look at the “Mona Lisa” and realized she wasn’t looking at him.

To make sure it wasn’t just him, the researchers asked 24 people to view images of the “Mona Lisa” on a computer screen. They set a ruler between the viewer and the screen and asked the participants to note which number on the ruler intersected(和……相交) Mona Lisa’s gaze. To calculate the angle of Mona Lisa’s gaze as she looked at the viewer, they moved the ruler farther from or closer to the screen during the study. Consistently, the researchers found, participants judged that the woman in the “Mona Lisa” portrait was not looking straight at them, but slightly off to their right.

So why do people repeat the belief that her eyes seem to follow the viewer? Horstmann isn’t sure. It’s possible, he said, that people have the desire to be looked at, so they think the woman is looking straight at them. Or maybe the people who first coined the term “Mona Lisa effect” just thought it was a cool name.

1. It is generally believed that the woman in the painting “Mona Lisa”___________.

A．attracts the viewers to look back

B．seems mysterious because of her eyes

C．fixes her eyes on the back of the viewers

D．looks at the viewers wherever they stand

2. What gaze range in a painting will cause the Mona Lisa effect?

A．

B．

C．

D．

3. The experiment involving 24 people was conducted to______.

A．confirm Horstmann’s belief

B．create artificial-intelligence avatars

C．calculate the angle of Mona Lisa’s gaze

D．explain how the Mona Lisa effect can be applied

4. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Horstmann thinks it’s cool to coin the term “Mona Lisa effect”.

B．The Mona Lisa effect contributes to the creation of artificial intelligence.

C．Feeling being gazed at by Mona Lisa may be caused by the desire for attention.

D．The position of the ruler in the experiment will influence the viewers’ judgement.

6 . To move visual technology into the future, sometimes it helps to make a little noise. Researchers have used sound waves to produce floating 3-D images, create a sense of touch and even supply a soundtrack.

Since the 1940s, scientists have toyed with the concept of acoustic levitation(声悬浮), the use of soundwave vibrations to trap tiny things in midair. The technology has gained greater capabilities in the past decade. Some researchers believe this improvement could lead to applications such as contributing to novel 3-D printing methods, or creating displays that would be visible from any angle without requiring a screen.

Other researchers have also worked on visual displays that use acoustic levitation. In addition to visuals, the system can also produce audible noise to give the display a soundtrack. And the ultrasound speakers can also concentrate vibrations in one spot so that a finger might feel a sense pushing back—a little like the object shown by the floating image is really there. Soundwaves create a 3-D display!

Display without a screen is remarkably useful. It means that everybody in the room can see the image—any angle, location—and that’s extremely helpful. As a communications system, such a display might one day allow users to chat with a 3-D projection(投影) of a person who can turn his or her head to follow as they move around a room.

The display will require a lot more work before you can install it in your living room, however. So far, this has been done in the research laboratory. We need to push it a little bit harder. We need to do more analysis to see if it would make sense to create a real display that people would have at home. The current system can only show simple graphics, such as a smiley face or figure eight, in real time.

Still, we are optimistic about the potential for this type of technology. If the system had only one speaker-covered surface instead of two, it could generate images that are bigger than the device itself. We can’t make a TV image that’s bigger than the TV—even a projector has to have a projection screen that’s bigger than the image itself. But with a volumetric(容积的) display, a small, portable device might produce a much larger picture. We can imagine, in the future, having volumetric displays in watches, for example, that create large images that just project out of your watch.

1. From the first two paragraphs soundwave vibrations can be used to _________.

A．catch very small objects in midair

B．develop 3-D printer’s capabilities

C．replace a creative display screen

D．compose soundtracks by making no noise

2. What do we know about display without a screen?

A．It has resulted in visual technology.

B．It is possible to see the image from any direction.

C．It is already ripe to create a real one at home.

D．It has yet to be tested in the research laboratory.

3. What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?

A．Outlooks for the new technology.

B．Situations of the modern technology.

C．Praise for the cutting-edge technology.

D．Room for the technical improvement.

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

A．Hearing Is Seeing—Sound Waves Create a 3-D Display

B．Seeing is Believing—3-D Printing Methods Arrive

C．Advancing Sense of Touch—3-D Images Float in the Air

D．Promoting TV Technology—Chat with 3-D Projections

7 . If you live in Washington, D. C., or Redwood, Calif., you may have glimpsed a small, boxy robot rolling along a local sidewalk, minding it’s own business, but attracting the attention of many a curious onlooker. The autonomous machines were part of a pilot program last year by Starship Technologies focused on delivering meals from local restaurants in dozens of cities around the world.

“Today, more than ever, people lead a busy and diverse life,” Lex Bayer, Starship’s CEO, said in a statement online. “The hassle of needing to rearrange your life for a delivery will become a thing of the past. You don’t have to switch your working from home day, reschedule meetings, visit a locker, drive to a post office or contact a deliveryman all because of a missed delivery.”

The package delivery service is not available to everyone just yet. The company said it’s rolling out the service in Milton Keynes, England. The wheeled robots have a top speed of 4 mph and can detect obstacles from as far as 30 feet away. “The robot can operate through just about anything,” Nick Handrick, head of operations for Starship’s D. C. office, told The Washington Post's Maura Judkis last year. “If you had something in the way—a stick—it’s able to climb the edges of a road.”

By giving customers control of when deliveries occur, Starship Technologies is offering its service as a way to battle package theft. In its announcement, the company cited statistics from a Wakefield Research Poll for Comcast last year that found that 3 in 10 Americans who live in houses or townhouses have had packages stolen.

To sign up for the service, which costs a little more than $10 per month, customers need to download the company's app. Customers then create a “Starship Delivery Address,” a unique address inside a Starship facility, instead of a residence, where they can have packages sent from places such as Amazon, com. Once a package is delivered to the Starship address, customers receive a text that allows them to schedule a home delivery via robot.

1. Which can best replace the underlined word “hassle” in paragraph 2?

A．failure

B．expectation

C．safety

D．trouble

2. What problem is the delivery robot facing?

A．There is a limit to its service area.

B．It takes longer to deliver packages.

C．It covers a short distance each time.

D．It can’t sense the barriers 20 feet away.

3. How does the package by a robot avoid being stolen?

A．The company shortens the delivery hour.

B．The package is delivered to the house directly.

C．Its delivery time is in the control of customers.

D．The customers are informed of its delivery time in advance.

4. What can be inferred about Starship Delivery Address in the last paragraph?

A．It is a real home address of the customers.

B．It can arrange delivery robots for the customers.

C．It is a cheaper solution to the delivery of packages.

D．It sends the packages mainly to some shopping platforms.

8 . Rarely do teachers know whether they make permanent impressions on students. I know because it ________ to my mother, a retired teacher, when she turned on the ________ one morning in 2003.

The story began in the mid-1960s.My mom was teaching ________ at Burlingame Junior High. I knew little about her job at the time except for the ________ redhead, Tamara, who was ________ writing stories as a seventh-grader in my mom’s class.

I was visiting her in 2003 when my mom came out of her room with a ________ look on her face. She’s been listening to the radio, and she had ________ an interview with a best-selling French author, Tamara Pierce—the same name as that of the redhead my mom had taught nearly four ________ before. My mother ________: Could it be the same person?

I ________ the Internet and quickly found the website for the author. My heart began to beat rapidly when I ________ it at the bottom—here was ________ that my mother had taught a now-famous writer!

“I should ________ my writing career to my English teacher. (Bless you, Mrs. Jacobsen!)”

My mother’s name was Mary Jacobsen.

My mother’s immediate response to this ________ was quiet. She was always kind and extremely ________. I mention this story not only because it’s a wonderful ________ of the influence teachers can have without being ________ of it. It also makes me see my mom ________. This story makes me consider how nice it would be if we all let our favorite ________ teachers know their work ________.

1.

A．fell

B．appealed

C．happened

D．applied

2.

A．radio

B．television

C．computer

D．heat

3.

A．French

B．Spanish

C．Italian

D．English

4.

A．amazed

B．excited

C．gifted

D．bored

5.

A．respectful of

B．skilled at

C．uninterested in

D．surprised at

6.

A．puzzled

B．worried

C．tired

D．satisfied

7.

A．conducted

B．arranged

C．received

D．heard

8.

A．years

B．decades

C．months

D．weeks

9.

A．shouted

B．repeated

C．wondered

D．sighed

10.

A．went into

B．looked into

C．checked

D．searched

11.

A．spotted

B．recorded

C．seized

D．realized

12.

A．possibility

B．evidence

C．news

D．knowledge

13.

A．return

B．adapt

C．owe

D．show

14.

A．doubt

B．creation

C．event

D．discovery

15.

A．modest

B．outgoing

C．sympathetic

D．faithful

16.

A．victory

B．example

C．topic

D．stage

17.

A．worthy

B．certain

C．aware

D．proud

18.

A．averagely

B．differently

C．normally

D．patiently

19.

A．lost

B．separate

C．present

D．former

20.

A．mattered

B．disappeared

C．approached

D．continued

9 . The Sweetest Thing

When I was ten, I was crazy about candy. Whenever in our small-town store with my mom, I would ___ my fingers through my favorite candy on the shelf.

Once there, thinking about all things sweet, I noticed a man a few feet away pressing buttons on the ATM machine. Dressed in a suit, he seemed to be late for something, ___waiting for his cash to appear. The machine made a noise, and he immediately ___ a pile of bills and headed out. Curiously, I walked over to the ATM, where I started pressing the buttons as if knowing the ___. Then I looked into the bottom of the machine. There I saw it: a beautiful, crisp $ 20 bill! ___ I wanted to believe my magic made the cash appear, I knew the man in the suit must have left it behind.

I held the money in my hand, staring at the number “20” and feeling ___ than I ever had. I thought about slipping the money into my pocket. No one would know, but I just didn’t feel it was ___. I knew it didn’t belong to me. I had to find its owner and give it back! So I told my mom what had happened. “We’ll look for him.” she said kindly. We rushed out and found him stepping into his car in the parking lot! We ___ him and asked whether he had left money at the cash machine.

“Let me ___,” he said, pulling out his wallet and bills. “Twenty, forty, eighty...Oh! You’re right,” he said with surprise, “I’m ___ a $20 bill.”

“Here you go,” I said, smiling with pride, as if I was a(n) ___ who had solved a mystery. “Thank you so much,” he said, bending down and shaking my hand. My heart swelled. Before saying goodbye, he asked my mom for my name and __. “I want to send your daughter a thank-you card,” he said.

On my way home, my ___ was racing. Twenty dollars. What could I have done with it? I bet I could have bought a puppy or every single candy bar in town! But now ___ of that would happen. Yet I knew I had done the right thing.

A few weeks later, I got a box with a note. I ripped it open to find packages of candy. “Dear Felice, thank you very much for ___ my $20. You are a great girl, and I appreciate your__. I hope you enjoy this candy. Best wishes, Tom.” Tom included his business card. It ___ that he was vice-president for the candy company. The candy tasted sweet, each ___ reminding me that what I had done mattered. Although my honesty wouldn’t always be ___ with candy, it would make a difference to someone. And that was the ___ part of all.

1.

A．cast

B．fold

C．run

D．touch

2.

A．excitedly

B．anxiously

C．angrily

D．hopefully

3.

A．seized

B．covered

C．handed

D．posted

4.

A．man

B．password

C．assistant

D．machine

5.

A．Since

B．Once

C．Until

D．Though

6.

A．smarter

B．prettier

C．richer

D．stronger

7.

A．right

B．good

C．fair

D．easy

8.

A．guided

B．caught

C．searched

D．approached

9.

A．try

B．think

C．guess

D．check

10.

A．seeking

B．missing

C．sparing

D．changing

11.

A．detective

B．engineer

C．manager

D．designer

12.

A．age

B．habit

C．address

D．birthday

13.

A．car

B．memory

C．mind

D．time

14.

A．both

B．either

C．some

D．none

15.

A．lending

B．returning

C．remembering

D．keeping

16.

A．honesty

B．loyalty

C．devotion

D．bravery

17.

A．took out

B．picked out

C．turned out

D．found out

18.

A．bite

B．dollar

C．product

D．choice

19.

A．marked

B．replaced

C．shared

D．rewarded

20.

A．freshest

B．sweetest

C．hardest

D．heaviest

10 . 假设你是李华,准备参加在你市举办的国际青少年文化节志愿者招聘活动。活动主办方要求能够熟练运用英语。请你用英文写封信,推荐自己。
内容包括：1.你的自荐理由

2.你对活动的理解。

注意：1.词数100左右;

2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯

3.开头和结尾已为你写好,不计入总词数。

Dear Sir,

Thank you for reading my letter.

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Yours,

Li Hua