| A．Attend a wedding. |
| B．Visit his cousin. |
| C．Work in the office. |
1. What does the woman think matters least for windsurfing beginners?
| A．Related experience. |
| B．Great effort. |
| C．Expensive equipment. |
| A．She taught herself. |
| B．She joined a course. |
| C．She learned from a friend. |
| A．She can release pressure. |
| B．She has become healthier. |
| C．She can try new things. |
| A．Be a coach. |
| B．Enter some races. |
| C．Do some land-based sports. |
1. How did the man get home last night?
| A．By car. | B．By bus. | C．By subway. |
| A．Old-fashioned. | B．Good-looking. | C．Modern. |
4 . I had a quick thirty-minute stopover (中途停留) in Detroit before heading home to Toronto. After
I was tired and had a
The next flight was in four hours. I
I picked up my bag,
As she was
When boarding the plane, I was surprised to
| A．driving | B．wandering | C．rushing | D．breaking |
| A．take | B．waste | C．enjoy | D．spare |
| A．call | B．meeting | C．treatment | D．case |
| A．requirement | B．conclusion | C．announcement | D．reply |
| A．later | B．last | C．earlier | D．first |
| A．normal | B．former | C．single | D．nice |
| A．set off | B．looked around | C．stood by | D．ran away |
| A．seriously | B．willingly | C．hopefully | D．importantly |
| A．voted | B．happened | C．wanted | D．refused |
| A．kindness | B．money | C．guidance | D．encouragement |
| A．listened | B．walked | C．reported | D．explained |
| A．doubt | B．worry | C．smile | D．fear |
| A．processing | B．holding | C．booking | D．selling |
| A．handed | B．promised | C．sold | D．brought |
| A．staff | B．businessmen | C．volunteers | D．passengers |
| A．help | B．speak | C．interact | D．leave |
| A．warn | B．remember | C．advise | D．discover |
| A．anxious | B．thankful | C．responsible | D．suitable |
| A．praise | B．loss | C．danger | D．reward |
| A．returned | B．sent | C．introduced | D．shown |
1. 推荐一项活动；
2. 简述可做的事情；
3. 表达愿望。
注意：1. 词数 100 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
6 . Every week in China, millions of people will sit in front of their TVs watching teenagers compete for the title Character Hero, which is a Chinese-style spelling bee. In this challenge, young competitors must write Chinese characters by hand. To prepare for the competition, the competitors usually spend months studying dictionaries.
Perhaps the show’s popularity should not be a surprise. Along with gunpowder and paper, many Chinese people consider the creation of Chinese calligraphy(书法) to be one of their primary contributions to civilization. Unfortunately, all over the country, Chinese people are forgetting how to write their own language without computerized help. Software on smart phones and computers allows users to type in the basic sound of the word using the Latin alphabet. The correct character is chosen from a list. The result? It’s possible to recognize characters without remembering how to write them.
But there’s still hope for the paint brush. China’s Education Ministry wants children to spend more time learning how to write.
In one Beijing primary school we visited, students practice calligraphy every day inside a specially decorated classroom with traditional Chinese paintings hanging on the walls. Soft music plays as a group of six-year-olds dip brush pens into black ink. They look up at the blackboard often to study their teacher’s examples before carefully attempting to reproduce those characters on thin rice paper. “If adults can survive without using handwriting, why bother to teach it now?” we ask the calligraphy teacher, Shen Bin. “The ability to write characters is part of Chinese tradition and culture,” she reasons. “Students must learn now so they don’t forget when they grow up.” says the teacher.
1. What can we learn about the Character Hero?| A．It’s open to people of all ages and all walks. |
| B．It’s the most-viewed TV programs in China. |
| C．It aims to spread Chinese culture to the world. |
| D．It draws great public attention across the country. |
| A．Chinese people don’t refer to dictionaries very often. |
| B．Chinese people no longer use brush pens or practice calligraphy. |
| C．Chinese people are using the Latin alphabet instead of the characters. |
| D．Chinese people needn’t write by hand as often with the help of technology. |
| A．necessary for adults to survive in China |
| B．a requirement made by the Education Ministry |
| C．helpful to keep Chinese tradition and culture alive |
| D．an ability to be developed only when you are students |
| A．A news report. | B．A science report. |
| C．An advertisement. | D．Children’s literature. |
7 . All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.
Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet.
People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends.
| A．And think of people in cold countries. |
| B．Sports help to train a person’s character. |
| C．Not a few people like sports in the world. |
| D．Many people like to watch others play games. |
| E．People aren’t inventing new sports or games. |
| F．Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them. |
| G．People are inventing new sports or games all the time. |
8 . We recognize our friends’ faces. And we’re not alone. Many social animals can identify individuals of their own species by features of their faces. That's important, because they need to be able to change their behavior depending on who they meet. And a recent research has shown that some species of monkeys, birds, and domesticated (家养的) animals can even tell different faces apart by looking at photographs alone.
Ethologist Léa Lansade of the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment did an experiment to find out how well horses can recognize individual people in photographs.
She and her team first taught the horses how to “choose” between two side-by-side pictures by touching their noses to a computer screen. The horses were then shown photos of their present keeper alongside faces of unfamiliar humans. They had never seen photos of any of the people before. The horses correctly identified their current keeper and ignored (忽视) the stranger’s face about 75%of the time. In fact, even though the horses didn't get it right every single time, they were at least as correct in picking out their earlier keeper as they were at identifying their present one.
The results suggest that not only can horses differentiate between familiar and unfamiliar human faces, they also naturally understand that photographs are two dimensional representations (二维呈现) of real life, without any other intimations such as smell or sound. And they’re even better at this than our oldest animal parter, the domestic dog.
In addition, horses seem to have a strong long-term memory for human faces, like their long lifespan and history of domestication. In future experiments, the researchers would like to test whether looking at photos of people that they have had bad experiences with in the past might cause horses to act anxious or even avoidance. So maybe think twice before doing anything that might give a horse a long face.
1. Why did researchers show the horses both the keeper’s photos and the strangers’?| A．To find out what horses would do in the experiment. |
| B．To see why horses could recognize the keeper in the pictures. |
| C．To test whether horses could recognize the strangers in pictures. |
| D．To study to what degree horses can make out different people in pictures. |
| A．Clues. | B．Differences. |
| C．Photographs. | D．Senses. |
| A．Whether horses can live longer than other animals. |
| B．Whether horses can remember human's faces for a long time. |
| C．Whether horses can show their emotions at the sight of photos. |
| D．Whether horses are better at recognizing photos than other animals. |
| A．To talk about animals’ species. |
| B．To explain animals’ facial features. |
| C．To show animals’ behaviour for adaptation. |
| D．To introduce animals’ ability to identifying faces. |
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。
Last Sunday, I, together with my friends Tom and Mary, paid the visit to Taiyuan. We began by touring Shanxi Museum, what is located by the beautiful Fenhe Park. Since I was born and brought up in Taiyuan, so I acted as their tour guides. For lunch, we tried some special Shanxi noodles. Tom and Mary spoke high of Shanxi noodles. After lunch, I suggested boat in the Fenhe Park. When we decided leave, the traditional paper cutting catch our eyes. Tom and Mary bought some paper cuts as souvenirs.
This experience with him undoubtedly improved our friendship. On fact, I began to realize that as Chinese, we should appreciate our own culture so as to make these treasures last forever.
10 . When it comes to writing work emails, there are many rules to follow. In the past, people always wanted to come across as someone who’s calm and professional, which workplace manners experts say means they wanted to hold back their love for emoticons while on the job.
But language is always changing, and a recent national survey in the US found that 76 percent of Americans said that they had used emoticons in digital communication at work. The most popular emoticon is the happy face.
Lindsey Pollak, a US career coach who works with Millennials (千禧一代), has also noticed that emoticons have gone from being inappropriate for the workplace to being accepted. The reason behind this, according to her, is largely due to the changing of people in a particular age group of the workforce. Millennials are now the biggest generation in the American workforce. “A few years ago, emoticons were absolutely seen as very young and very personal,” Pollak said. “Over the past few years... I've seen emoticons become more acceptable. I see them more frequently not just from Millennials but from all generations at the workplace.”
“People tend to use emoticons to just add that little bit of extra change in the tone when there's something awkward or potentially offensive, or when they might take in things in the wrong way,” explains Lauren Collister, a sociolinguist. In life and work, many of us have used emoticons to send positive atmosphere or soften statements.
Pollak, however, warns against being too casual at work. Her advice is to be aware of who the audience is. “Frankly, I wouldn’t use a happy face with any CEO in the US. I wouldn’t use a happy face with the people of a certain level no matter how commonplace and acceptable it has become,” she said. “You can make or break a relationship with one email these days.”
1. What does the author say about past working people?| A．They avoided using emoticons at the workplace. |
| B．They used more serious emoticons. |
| C．They were not fond of emoticons. |
| D．They were calm and professional. |
| A．Make it personal to communicate. |
| B．Keep up with the trend of the times. |
| C．Help them share their ideas and feelings. |
| D．Show a positive attitude to the receiver. |
| A．Emoticons should be used with caution. |
| B．There are strict limitations on emoticon using. |
| C．All the US CEOs are against the use of emoticons. |
| D．Emoticons can greatly help bring people close. |
| A．Subjective. | B．Objective. | C．Doubtful. | D．Opposing. |
