1 . I still remember an old lady, a customer on the paper route in my hometown when I was 12 years old. She taught me a lesson in _______ that I shall never forget.

On a winter afternoon, a friend and I were _______ stones onto the roof of the old lady's house. The stone that I found was too smooth, so it slipped from my hand as I let it go and_______straight not for the covering on top of the house but for a small _______ on the house's back porch. At the sound of broken glass, we knew we were _______.We turned and  ran away.

I was too scared about getting _______ that first night to be concerned about the old lady with the broken window in the freezing weather. However, a few days later, when I was sure that I hadn't been discovered , I started to feel _______ about her misfortune. She still greeted me with a smile each day when I gave her the paper , but I was no longer able to_______comfortably in her presence.

I made up my mind that I would _______ my delivering paper money. And after three weeks I had seven dollars that I calculated would pay for her window. I put the money in an envelope with a note explaining that I was sorry for breaking her window and hoped that the seven dollars would ________ the cost of repairing it.

I waited until it was dark , moved ________ to the old lady ' s house and put the letter I didn’t sign through the letter slot(狭槽） in her door. I felt relieved  and could have the ________ of , once again , looking straight into the old lady's kind eyes .

The next day, I handed the old lady her paper and was able to ________ the warm smile that I was receiving from her. She thanked me for the paper and gave me a bag of cookies she had made herself. I thanked her and started to eat the cookies as I continued my ________.

After several cookies, I felt an envelope and pulled it out of the bag. When I opened the envelope, I was ________. Inside were the seven dollars and a short note that said ,“I'm proud of you.”

1.

A．bravery

B．talent

C．selflessness

D．forgiveness

2.

A．selling

B．painting

C．throwing

D．picking

3.

A．put

B．headed

C．dragged

D．placed

4.

A．window

B．door

C．desk

D．chair

5.

A．in charge

B．in ruins

C．in danger

D．in trouble

6.

A．caught

B．fined

C．fired

D．cheated

7.

A．surprised

B．guilty

C．bored

D．annoyed

8.

A．teach

B．act

C．hide

D．draw

9.

A．donate

B．lose

C．spend

D．save

10.

A．cover

B．take

C．reach

D．take

11.

A．hurriedly

B．patiently

C．quietly

D．firmly

12.

A．freedom

B．pressure

C．mercy

D．luck

13.

A．make

B．understand

C．return

D．respect

14.

A．effort

B．study

C．journey

D．route

15.

A．amused

B．satisfied

C．shocked

D．nervous

2 . Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.

“I think we are knocking at the door of immortality(永生),” said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “I think by 2075 we will see it and that’s a conservative estimate(保守的估计).”

At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology(纳米技术) make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what was possible in the past. “There is a great effort so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said. “Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”

However, many scientists who specialize in aging are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.

Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. “It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?” said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre. “At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.”

1. By saying“we are knocking at the door of immortality”,Michael Zey means_________.

A．they have got some ideas about living forever

B．they believe that there is no limit of living

C．they are able to make people live past the present life span

D．they are sure to find the truth about long living

2. Donald Louria’s attitude towards long living is that________.

A．the human body is designed to last past about 120 years

B．it is possible for humans to live longer in the future

C．it is still doubtful how long humans can live

D．people can live from 120 to 180

3. The underlined word“it”(in Paragraph 4)refers to________.

A．a great effort

B．the conservative estimate

C．the idea of living from 200 to 300 years

D．the idea of living beyond the present life span

4. What would be the best title for this text?

A．No Limit for Human Life

B．Living Longer or not

C．Science,Technology and Long Living

D．Healthy Lifestyle and Long Living

3 . As long as there have been exams, students have found ways to cheat. Today the correct answers are just a few taps away on a smart phone. So countries have come up with new ways to stop the funny business. Some use metal detectors, surveillance (监控) cameras, and mobile phone jammers (干扰器).    1    

Cheating in high school leaving exams got so bad in Mauritania and Algeria that this year the authorities turned off the Internet for the entire country. Algeria did so for at least an hour during tests (which last about a week).    2    Other countries, such as Iraq, Uzbekistan and Ethiopia, have for years been shutting down the Internet during exam time.

In each country students are under high pressure to do well in the tests, which often determine whether they can continue their education at a good university.    3    But high marks are rare. In Algeria only around half of students passed the exams in recent years. In Mauritania the rate is much lower.

    4    Darrell West of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, estimates that in 2015-2016 Internet shutdowns ordered by governments cost countries at least $2.4bn.     5    

A．Turning off the Internet is expensive.

B．Teachers try to help — in their own way.

C．Others have taken a more severe measure.

D．A splendid grade may mean a scholarship abroad.

E．Mauritania cut access from morning until evening on exam days.

F．For that kind of money, countries could even improve their schools.

G．With so many students cheating electronically, governments are taking extreme steps.

4 . Christina Horsten and Felix Zeltner tried not to panic when they were hit with a $400 rent increase on their Park Slope apartment in 2016, and realized they would have to move for the second time in two years. Instead of feeling intimidated by the unexpected event, they hit upon an unconventional idea: Why not move to a new neighborhood every month for a year?

At first, things went remarkably well. They found their next apartment, a beautiful apartment in Chinatown. The next months brought stops in Staten Island and Harlem. As September approached, their next place to live proved difficult to find. When their Harlem lease (租约) ended, they took a road trip, then fell for a false advertisement in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, when an apartment they found advertised online wasn't actually available to rent. And eventually they got their money back through Paypal. “That was rock bottom,” Ms. Horsten said.

Over the rest of the year, they spent time in a townhouse in Mott Haven, as well as apartments in Chelsea, the East Village, Hell’s Kitchen, and Williamsburg. “In the end, we were like, ‘Why should we even stop doing this?’ ”Ms. Horsten said. But then a lease takeover on Listings Project caught their attention: a two-bedroom apartment atop an Upper West Side townhouse.

A second daughter, Lily, was born in January. And with a newborn, they have no intention of moving again anytime soon. Still, many aspects of their adventure have remained with them. “In the same way that we’ve tried to keep minimalism (极简主义) in our life, we try to stay in touch with all the people we’ve met,” Ms. Horsten said.“We realized it was a lifelong project to try to get to know NewYork City,” she added. But there is one member of the household eagerly waiting for a repeat: their 4-year-old daughter Emma.“ I think she loved it the most,” Ms. Horsten said.“At all the places we stayed, she found things I never noticed: children’s books, a dollhouse, a drum set. Even now, she’s like,‘When are we moving to a new home?’ And we’re like,‘We kind of like it here.’ ”

1. What does the underlined word “intimidated” in Paragraph1 mean?

A．Frightened.	B．Surprised.
C．Embarrassed.	D．Confused.

2. While looking for a place to stay, where was the couple nearly cheated?

A．In Chinatown.	B．In Sunset Park.
C．In Staten Island.	D．In Harlem.

3. What’s the couple’s plan for next month?

A．Buying a townhouse in Brooklyn.

B．Staying in the apartment in the Upper West Side.

C．Donating their daughter’s toys to those living nearby.

D．Looking for a two-bedroom apartment for their newborn.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．East or west, home is best.	B．Where to start, where to end.
C．Wherever you are, there is home.	D．Another month, another neighborhood.

5 . Architect Daniel Libeskind is the designer of such global landmarks as New York's One World Trade Center and Berlin's Jewish Museum. In his new book, he reviews his life's work and its inspirations — including these books.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. I love Lewis Carroll; he's a total genius (天才). His two classic works are children's books for grown-ups because they show aspects of the creative mind that we all have but seldom use in adulthood. Inspired by Carroll, I make a habit of trying to learn seven amazing things before breakfast.

Ulysses by James Joyce. Joyce once said that if Dublin were destroyed, you could recreate the entire city from this novel. You can't do urban planning without Ulysses because it is a labyrinth (迷宫) you can never leave.

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. Proust's great novel is really a book of reflections about how architecture — our living spaces — creates a blueprint (蓝图) for our dreams, our desires, our emotions, and our memories. Where we have lived, what we have eaten, and what kind of cups we use — all of those aspects are examined here in minute detail.

Emily Dickinson's Herbarium by Emily Dickinson. From childhood onward, Dickinson collected, pressed, and classified the plants she grew in her garden in Amherst. Through the pictures in this book, you can see how her poetry — all her symbols, all her metaphors (隐喻), the colors she mentions — mirrors nature. You don't even have to read her poetry to see what a great artist she was.

1. Which of the following books is set in Dublin?

A．Ulysses.	B．In Search of Lost Time.
C．Through the Looking-Glass.	D．Emily Dickinson's Herbarium.

2. Whose book has pictures of various plants?

A．James Joyce's.	B．Emily Dickinson's.
C．Marcel Proust's.	D．Lewis Carroll's.

3. What can be learned about the books mentioned in the text?

A．They are all novels.	B．They are written for children.
C．They offer inspirations for Daniel Libeskind.	D．They focus on the power of nature.

6 . After a lot of local and state warnings, research and bans of hoverboards (平衡车), the federal government issued a statement on Wednesday. The message: Many of the machines are a major fire risk.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced the recall (召回) of more than a half-million hoverboards.The safety commission said that the battery-powered machines had been the cause of at least 60 fires. The announcement affects 10 companies that make or sell the products, including Razor and Swagway, two of the leading manufacturers.

Hoverboards, which do not actually hover or fly, have been the subject of regulatory examination in recent years. Officials have banned them from airplanes and sidewalks, and the safety commission carried out research last fall because of reports of fires and explosions.

The risk of fires from the machine's electrical system and battery(电池) pack has attracted the most attention from the safety commission, which says it will now turn its focus toward the risk of falls and other accidents. The agency is worried that flaws (缺陷) in the board's design could lead riders to lose their balance.

There is no federal safety standard specific to hoverboards. Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a standards-setting and testing organization, came up with voluntary electrical requirements for self-balancing hoverboards as a result of the safety commission's research, said Elliot F. Kaye, the chairman of the CPSC.

He required consumers to return any hoverboard that did not reach the standards set by the company. However, part of the problem, he explained, was that many hoverboards had been sold by temporary stands such as those in malls or college campuses — fly-by-night sellers that can be harder to track down or get in touch with. “That is a deeply frustrating aspect of it,” Mr. Kaye said. “Somebody can just put up a stand, order some products, disappear, and there's nobody there to take responsibility when things go wrong.”

1. Why will so many hoverboards be recalled?

A．They aren't easy to use.	B．They are likely to cause fires.
C．They don't actually hover or fly.	D．They caused many traffic accidents.

2. What will the CPSC pay attention to?

A．The recycling of hoverboards.	B．The popularity of hoverboards.
C．The balance risk of hoverboards.	D．The price controls of hoverboards.

3. Which of the following set safety standards for hoverboards?

A．The CPSC.

B．Razor.

C．Swagway.

D．UL.

4. What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Many hoverboards can make people fall easily.

B．The designs of hoverboards needed improving.

C．CPSC intended to recall some hoverboards.

D．People were discouraged from buying hoverboards.

7 . 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。

Cloning is an approach to     1    (make) an exact copy of another animal or plant, which, in our daily life, happens quite often. It has two major uses.     2    is that gardeners take cuttings from growing plants to make new ones. The other is that it is     3    (value) for medical research on animals. The process of cloning is a difficult task     4    (undertake).

The first successful clone, Dolly the sheep,     5    (arouse) worldwide     6    (curious) and concern because of its scientific and ethical implications(影响). She was the first mammal to be cloned from adult DNA     7    (take) from an adult cell. Dolly’s appearance raised a storm of     8    (object) and had a great effect     9    the media and public imagination. Different people have different opinions on it. However, scientists still wonder     10    cloning will help or harm us and where it is leading us.

8 . It was a Sunday and the heavy storm had lasted all night. The morning after the storm, though, was beautiful: blue skies, warm air and a calm, inviting sea touching the shore gently.

My father realized it was a good day for fishing and invited my sister and me to go with him. I was only 14 and fishing had never been my thing, but I decided to go all the same. I’m so glad I did.

On the road to the harbor we could see the terrible destruction on the coast, but the harbor itself was in fairly good shape. After all, it was protected by the arms of a bay that had only one tiny channel to the sea. As we got on board, we noticed two big humps (脊背) in the distance.

On approaching them, we saw it was a mother whale with her baby. We couldn’t believe it — there aren’t any whales along the coast here. The storm must have driven them across the ocean into the bay, in which the still water was so badly polluted that nothing could survive.

The little baby whale — actually as big as our boat — was obviously stuck and could not move. The mother dived under the water and came up suddenly, making big whirlpools(漩涡) and waves. “She’s trying to help her baby, but on the wrong side,” my father said. At this point, my father moved our boat in a semicircle to the other side and, heading the boat towards the baby whale, pushed it gently. With our several gentle pushes the big hump turned over and disappeared under water. Then it swam up right beside its mum. They struggled in their desperate attempts to escape but missed the exit and started heading in the wrong direction. We hurried up to the whales and tried to lead them towards the bay channel. Slowly, they let us lead them, some-times rising from the water right beside us to breathe — and to give us a trusting look with those huge eyes. Once they hit their first part of clean water flowing straight from the sea, the mum gave us a wave with her tail and off they swam into the distance.

In the excitement it had felt like only a few minutes, but we had been with those wonderful animals for almost an hour and a half. That was the simple and lasting beauty of the day. Nearly four decades later, I still look back fondly to that golden day at sea.

1. The author says “I’m so glad I did.” (in Para.2) because __________.

A．he spent the weekend with his family

B．be witnessed the whole process of fishing

C．he enjoyed the beauty of the calm sea

D．he experienced the rescue of the whales

2. The harbor survived the storm owing to __________.

A．the long coast line	B．the shape of the harbor
C．the arms of the bay	D．the still water in the channel

3. The mother whale failed to help her baby because __________.

A．the waves pushed her baby in the wrong direction

B．she had stayed in the polluted water for too long

C．the whirlpools she had made were not big enough

D．she had no other whales around to turn to for help

4. What is the theme of the story?

A．It’s vital to protect the environment

B．Saving lives brings people a sense of happiness

C．Fishing provides excitement for children

D．It’s necessary to live in harmony with animals