1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. When does the man go to City College?

A．At 5:30.

B．At 6:00.

C．At 7:00.

2. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A．Photography skills.

B．A photography course.

C．A professional photographer.

2 . What kind of music does the band play?

A．Country music.

B．Rock music.

C．Pop music.

3 . What’s the man’s animal sign?

A．

B．

C．

4 . Passing Happiness on

I was standing in the checkout line behind a woman who looked to be in her 60s. When it was her turn to pay, the cashier asked her how she was doing.

The woman looked _________, shook her head and said, “Not so good. My husband just lost his job. I don’t know how I get through the days.”

My heart ached. I wanted to _________ but didn’t know how. Should I offer to pay for her groceries?

As I walked into the parking lot, I saw the woman returning her shopping cart. I remembered something in my purse that 1 thought could help her. It wasn’t a handful of cash, _________ maybe it would make her life better.

My heart pounded as I _________ the woman.

“Excuse me, I heard what you said just now. It sounds like you’re going through a really _________ time right now. I’m so sorry. I’d like to give you something.” I handed her the small card from my purse.

When the woman read the card, she began to _________. And through her tears, she said: “You have no idea how much this means to me.”

I was a little _________ by her reply. Having never done anything like this before, I didn’t know what kind of _________ I might receive. All I could think to say was: “Would it be OK to give you a hug?”

After we embraced, we said good-bye.

The words on the card? :

“You Matter.”

A few weeks earlier, a colleague gave me a similar card as _________ for a difficult task I was doing. When I read the card, I felt a warm glow spread inside of me. Deeply touched, I ordered my own box of You Matter cards and started __________ them.

1.

A．calm

B．bored

C．down

D．shy

2.

A．check

B．help

C．learn

D．prove

3.

A．but

B．and

C．so

D．or

4.

A．visited

B．pushed

C．approached

D．protected

5.

A．lucky

B．hard

C．wonderful

D．busy

6.

A．count

B．complain

C．cry

D．apologize

7.

A．excited

B．scared

C．disappointed

D．surprised

8.

A．support

B．prize

C．attention

D．reaction

9.

A．encouragement

B．benefit

C．trust

D．appreciation

10.

A．playing

B．sharing

C．designing

D．collecting

5 . It all started this morning just before noon. Mrs. White was returning from the supermarket with her daughter and a friend, their neighbor. They stopped on the stairway of their building a their fifth-floor apartment. The neighbor opened her door first, and little Lily ran past her. She knew the apartment well, since she had visited it many times. The friend put down her keys and shopping bags, and turned back a moment to Mrs. White.

At that moment, there was a sudden gust of wind and the door to the apartment was closed. Lily was inside, alone.

Then the friend remembered that she had left her kitchen window open. She and Mrs. White rushed to Mrs. White's apartment and telephoned the police. But there was no time to get help in opening the neighboring apartment. They could see that Lily was already leaning out of the kitchen window. She had climbed onto a chair. and soon she was climbing out onto the window sill.

Mrs. White called to Lily to go back inside. But the little girl did not understand the danger and did not want to go back. She only waved to her mother.

Then she lost her balance and her feet slipped off the window sill. She managed to hold on for a while with her hands, but then she became weak and she began to be afraid. Her mother screamed for help, and now Lily was crying loudly.

And then she could hold on go longer Fortunately, several people had run out into the street on hearing all the screaming. They saw the child hanging onto the window sill and got ready to catch her. Down she fell five long stories and landed safe and sound in the arms of three strong men. They were Luis, Augusto, and Alfonso Nunes, father and sons, who live in the next building in her community. When they heard the screams, they rushed out of their home. “I never thought we’d do it” said Alfonso afterwards. “But I kept thinking, if we don’t catch her, she’ll die and I’ll feel sad and guilty all my life.”

1. Who saved Lily eventually?

A．Lily's parents.	B．The nearby policemen.
C．Mrs. White's friends.	D．Neighbors in her community.

2. What can we learn from the story?

A．Lily couldn't hold on the window sill because she was frightened and weak.

B．Lily was left alone in the apartment due to her father's mistake.

C．Lily was rescued before she was falling from the window sill.

D．Lily waved to her mother because her mother smiled at her.

3. From what Alfonso said, we can tell that he was ________.

A．intelligent

B．humorous

C．responsible

D．strong-willed

4. What's the title of the passage?

A．A Naughty Girl	B．An Amazing Rescue
C．A careless Mother	D．An Unexpected Danger

6 . 假设你是红星中学高一学生李华。你的英国朋友Jim所在学校将举办主题为“中国文化周”（Chinese Culture Week）的活动。Jim打算介绍一项中国传统艺术，发来邮件请你推荐。请回复邮件，内容包括：
1. 艺术形式；
2. 推荐理由。
注意：1.词数不少于100；
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

7 . 阅读下面的短文和问题，根据短文内容，在相应题号后的横线上写下相关信息，完成对该问题的回答。答语要意思清楚，结构正确，书写工整。

As online learning becomes more common and more resources are changed to digital form, some people have suggested that public libraries should be shut down and everyone should be given a tablet.

Supporters of this idea state that it will save local cities and towns money because libraries are expensive to maintain. They also believe it will encourage more people to read because they can simply click on what they want to read wherever they are.

However, it would be a serious mistake to replace libraries with tablets. Digital books and resources are associated with less learning and more problems than print resources. A study done on tablet vs. book reading found that people read 20-30% slower on tablets, remember 20% less information, and understand 10% less of what they read, compared to people who read the same information in print. Additionally, staring too long at a screen has been shown to cause health problems, including blurred vision, dizziness, dry eyes and headaches, at much higher instances than reading print does. We should not add to these problems by giving people, especially young people, more reasons to look at screens.

It is incredibly narrow-minded to assume that the only service libraries offer is book lending. Libraries have a lot of benefits, and many are only available if the library has a physical location. Some of these benefits include acting as a quiet study space, giving people a way to talk to their neighbors, holding classes on a variety of topics, providing jobs, answering questions, and keeping the community connected. One neighborhood found that, after a local library instituted community events such as play times for kids and parents, job fairs for teenagers, and meeting spaces for senior citizens, over a third of residents reported feeling more connected to their community. Therefore, people see libraries as a way to connect with others and get their questions answered, which are benefits that tablets can’t offer as well or as easily.

While replacing libraries with tablets may seem like a simple solution, it would encourage people to spend even more time looking at digital screens, despite the many issues surrounding them. It would also end access to many library benefits that people have come to rely on. In many areas, libraries are such an important part of the community network that they could never be replaced by a simple object.

1. Why do some people believe tablet reading can encourage more people to read? (不多于14个单词)
2. What does the study in paragraph 3 show? (不多于12个单词)
3. According to paragraph 4, what are the advantages of public libraries over tablets? (不多于15个单词)
4. Do you think public libraries will be replaced by tablets? Why or why not?(单词数不限)

9 . Every day, millions of shoppers hit the stores in full force, searching wildly for the perfect gift. Aside from purchasing holiday gifts, most people regularly buy presents for other occasions throughout the year, including weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, and graduations. This frequent experience of gift-giving can cause uncertain feelings in gift-givers. Many enjoy the opportunity to buy presents because gift-giving offers a powerful means to build stronger bonds, while many worry that their purchases will disappoint rather than delight the intended recipients (接受者).

Anthropologists describe gift-giving as a positive social process, serving various political, religious, and psychological functions. Economists, however, offer a less favorable view. According to Waldfogel, gift-giving represents an objective waste of resources. People buy gifts that recipients would not choose to buy on their own, or at least not spend as much money to purchase (a phenomenon referred to as ‘‘the deadweight loss of Christmas”).

What is surprising is that gift-givers have much experience acting as both gift-givers and gift-recipients, but nevertheless tend to overspend each time they set out to purchase a meaningful gift. In the present research, we propose a unique psychological explanation for this overspending problem — gift-givers link how much they spend with how much recipients will appreciate the gift. Though it seems natural to gift-givers, such an assumption may be unfounded. Indeed, we propose that gift-recipients will be less likely to base their feelings of appreciation on the value of a gift than givers assume.

Why do gift-givers assume that gift price is closely linked to gift-recipients’ feelings of appreciation? Perhaps givers believe that more expensive gifts communicate a stronger sense of thoughtfulness and consideration. According to Camerer and others, gift-giving represents a symbolic ritual (习俗), by which gift-givers attempt to signal their positive attitudes towards the recipient and their willingness to invest resources in a future relationship. In this sense, gift-givers may be motivated to spend more money on a gift in order to send a “stronger signal”. As for gift-recipients, they may not interpret smaller and larger gifts as representing smaller and larger signals of thoughtfulness and consideration.

The idea of gift-givers and gift-recipients being unable to account for the other party’s viewpoint seems confusing because people slip in and out of these roles every day. Yet, despite the experience as both givers and receivers, people often struggle to apply information gained from one role in another. In theoretical terms, people fail to use information about their own preferences and experiences to produce more efficient outcomes in their exchange relations. In practical terms, people spend hundreds of dollars each year on gifts, but somehow never learn to estimate their gift expense according to personal insight.

1. The author uses “the deadweight loss of Christmas” in Paragraph 2 to express ________.

A．gift-givers don’t spend much money during holidays

B．gift-givers don’t ask recipients what gifts they prefer

C．gift-givers buy improper and expensive gifts

D．gift-givers have difficulty in choosing gifts

2. According to the passage, people buy gifts to ________.

A．receive gifts in return

B．enjoy the feeling of shopping

C．help recipients to save money

D．better relationships with recipients

3. What can we learn from the passage?

A．People’s high living standards require expensive gifts.

B．Gift-givers buy gifts based on their experiences as recipients.

C．Anthropologists think gift-giving meets different human needs.

D．Recipients judge the depth of friendship according to the gift price.

4. Why did the author write this article?

A．To criticize people’s gift-buying habits.

B．To analyze people’s gift-giving behaviors.

C．To offer advice on how to improve relationships.

D．To remind people not to overlook others’ preferences.

10 . If you had the opportunity to live forever, would you take it? Keeping your body alive indefinitely still seems like an impossibility, but some scientists think that digital technology may have the answer: creating a digital copy of your “self” and keeping it “alive” online long after your physical body has ceased to function.

In effect, the proposal is to clone a person electronically. Unlike the familiar physical clones — children that have identical features as their parents, but that are completely separate organisms with a separate life — your electronic clone would believe itself to be you. How might this be possible? The first step would be to map the brain.

How? One plan relies on the development of nanotechnology (纳米技术). Ray Kurzweil — one of the kings of artificial intelligence — predicts that within two or three decades we will have nano transmitters that can be put into the bloodstream. In the capillaries (毛细血管) of the brain, they would line up alongside the neurons and detect the details of the cerebral (大脑的) electronic activity. They would be able to send that information to a receiver inside a special helmet, so there would be no need for any wires sticking out of the head.

As a further step, Ray Kurzweil also imagines the nano transmitters being able to connect you to a world of virtual reality on the Internet, similar to what was shown in the film “Matrix”. With the nano transmitters in place, by thought alone, you could log on to the Internet and instead of the pictures coming up on your screen, they would play inside your mind. Rather than send your friends e-mails you would agree to meet up on some virtual tropical beach.

Some people believe that they can enjoy life after death. But why wait for that when you could have a shot of nanobots (纳米机器人) and upload your brain onto the Internet and live forever as a virtual surfer?

One snag: to exist on the net you will have to have your neural network parked on the computer of a web-hosting company. These companies want real money in real bank accounts every year or they will wipe your bit of the hard disc and sell the space to someone else. With your body six feet underground how will you pay?

1. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Nano transmitters can help map the human brain.

B．Electronic clones recreate the original human body.

C．Electronic clones may put their physical selves into movies.

D．Nano transmitters use a helmet to detect the cerebral activities.

2. What is the author’s attitude towards electronic clones?

A．Optimistic and careful.	B．Interested and unconvinced.
C．Excited and confused.	D．Assured and critical.

3. The author asks “how will you pay?” at the end of the article, because ________.

A．you can’t pay to exist on the Internet if you are physically dead

B．you can’t pay for hard disc space if you don’t have a bank account

C．you can’t pay for a special service if too many people want to use it

D．you can’t pay the web-hosting company if you don’t have a neural network