1 .     1    . The legendary volleyball coach Lang Ping gave the answer in the recent documentary (纪录片) The Iron Hammer.

The documentary displays Lang’s inspiring journey from her gold medal victory as a volleyball player in the 1984 Olympics to her amazing career as a successful coach for both Team USA from 2005 to 2008 and China since 2013. She was the first person to win Olympic volleyball gold as a player and coach. Lang Ping revealed the secret to such remarkable achievements in the documentary. As she said, “    2    ”.

    3    . Troubled by severe injuries to her cervical vertebra, back, waist and knees, caused by intense exercise and hard work, the 60-year-old has undergone more than 10 surgeries. “No parts of my body function well,” she joked.

But illness is certainly not the only difficulty Lang has faced. In 2005, she struggled with balancing raising her daughter Lydia Bai Lang, who lived in the US, and her coaching career. She eventually decided to work for USA Volleyball that year.     4    “I’m proud of being Chinese”   Lang responded in an interview. Later she returned to head the Chinese women ’s volleyball team in 2013, leading the team successfully defending its World Cup crown with a perfect record of 11 straight wins last year.

There is no doubt that Lang is one of the greatest players and coaches in history. As an American athlete commented in the documentary,     5    .

A．Who is Lang Ping?

B．Lang is the hardest to defeat.

C．I believe volleyball was my life.

D．What makes one a great person?

E．Glory and challenges go hand in hand.

F．Lang Ping is like Michael Jordan in our minds.

G．This decision aroused a lot of negative comments in China.

2 . 假定你是李华，你看到敦煌莫高窟 (Mogao Caves) 的石像 (stone statue) 由于游客不文明行为而受损的新闻报道后，想为全班做一个关于保护文物古迹的课前演讲，内容包括：
1. 你看到这则新闻时的感受；
2. 文物古迹保护的建议；
3. 号召保护文物古迹。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

3 . 假设你是高一学生李华，应学生会的邀请，写一篇文章向同学们推荐一项在校的课外体育运动，旨在激发同学们的运动热情，内容包括：
1. 运动的名称；
2. 推荐的理由；
3. 温馨的提示。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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4 . A night at the movies is always a good idea. But when you leave the theater and realize you just dropped $45 on a ticket and some snacks, you’ll wish you had been patient enough to wait until the movie came out on Netflix. The average movie ticket price in the United States in 2000 was $5.39; now, a ticket is over $9.

The main reason that movie tickets have gotten so expensive is because of inflation (通货膨胀). It was actually more expensive to go to the movies in the 70s than it is now. A ticket in 1978 cost $2.34. If you plug that into an inflation calculator, the same ticket would cost you $9.46 today. According to the National Association of Theater Owners, the average cost for a ticket today is $9.11.

Another reason you need to spend some of your life savings to see a movie on the big screen is that theaters are competing with streaming services that produce their own films, such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. And let’s be honest, sitting at home on your sofa or in your bed is more comfortable than sitting in a cold theater.

Because of streaming technology, theaters have to do something to bring in customers. Attractions—including alcohol, reclining seats (躺椅), surround sound, and 3-D movies are all examples of that. And those upgrades come at a price, leading to more expensive tickets.

“There’s all that extra cost, and it’s really important for theater owners and companies to make that experience as enjoyable as possible,” Patrick Corcoran, vice president of the National Association of Theatre Owners told Marketplace. “Because you’re offering a superb experience—audience expectations are for the latest and greatest technology. Audiences are willing to pay more for a particular experience.”

1. According to the passage, what makes movie tickets so expensive?

A．The viewers are wealthier than before.

B．The movie theatres offer popcorns, alcohol for free.

C．Inflation has made the ticket price appear higher than before.

D．The popular movies with famous stars deserve the high price.

2. We can learn from the passage that ________.

A．Netflix is always a better choice for movie viewers than theatres

B．with comfortable seats, theatres are more attractive than streaming services

C．the viewers actually pay more for the updates of the movie theatres

D．the theater owners and companies update the theaters to make the theatres famous

3. Which of the following would Patrick Corcoran most probably agree with?

A．It’s unwise for viewers to pay so much to watch a movie in the theater.

B．The high price of a movie ticket is supposed to agree with a wonderful experience.

C．It’s a waste of money to provide the latest technology in the theatre.

D．The viewers would prefer to sit at home on the sofas or in the beds.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Behind the Increasing Price of Movie Tickets

B．Technological Improvement on Movie Theatres

C．The Competition between Movie Theatre and Streaming Services

D．How to Save the Viewers’ Wallets

5 . Facebook has developed a kind of AI (人工智能) translating between any pair of 100 languages without depending on first translating to English.

Facebook’s system was trained on a data set of 7.5 billion sentence pairs collected from the web across 100 languages, though not all the languages had an equal number of sentence pairs. “What I was really interested in was cutting out English as a middle man. Globally there are plenty of countries where they speak two languages that aren’t English,” says Angela Fan of Facebook AI, who led the work.

For some language pairs, the new system shows prominent improvements in translation quality. For example, translating from Spanish to Portuguese is extremely strong because Spanish is the second-most spoken first language worldwide, meaning the researchers can get a lot of data. Translation between English and Belarusian (白俄罗斯语) also is improved because the AI can translate Russian into English, which shares similarities with Belarusian.

While the system isn’t in use on the social network site, Facebook plans to put it to work soon to manage the 20 billion translations made every day when people click “Translate” on posts (帖子) written in more than 160 languages. “Future work will be done on other languages,” says Fan, “especially for languages where we don’t have a lot of data, like South-East Asian and African languages.”

The work “breaks away from the English-centric models and tries to build more different models,” says Shelia Castilho of the ADAPT Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland. “That’s pretty new and different. But it’s hard to know if the AI does a right translation work,” says Castilho. “The users may not know the other language, so they cannot judge the correctness of the translation.”

1. What’s Angela Fan’s purpose of doing the research?

A．To collect data of all kinds of people.

B．To make learning different languages easier.

C．To achieve her dream of becoming a translator.

D．To avoid using English as a middle man in translation.

2. Why is it easy to translate from Spanish to Portuguese by AI?

A．There is much data on Spanish.

B．Portuguese is similar to Spanish.

C．Researchers have a good knowledge of the two languages.

D．Spanish is spoken by the largest number of people.

3. What is Castilho worried about?

A．The safety of AI translation.	B．The correctness of AI translation.
C．The way of using Facebook.	D．The number of posts on the website.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Facebook AI Can Talk with the Users

B．Facebook Wants to Buy a New System

C．Facebook AI Can Translate Any Pair of 100 Languages

D．Facebook Has Lost Many Users

6 . In the year I was about twelve years old, my mother told us that we would not be __________ Christmas gifts for short of money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d ________?” Just when I started to accept that there would not be a Christmas gift that year, then three women ________ at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I would no longer have to feel________ when I returned to school.

Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my ________ Christmas there special and memorable, I ________ remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of ________ for as many children as I could possibly ________.

So I ________ a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, each with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were ________. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I ________ them that they couldn’t open their presents until every child had come forward. Finally the ________ they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles ________ up the room. The ________ in the room was obvious, and it wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling – the feeling I knew from the Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I ________.

1.

A．sending

B．receiving

C．making

D．exchanging

2.

A．got

B．prepared

C．found

D．expected

3.

A．broke in

B．settled down

C．showed off

D．turned up

4.

A．embarrassed

B．puzzled

C．frightened

D．relieved

5.

A．present

B．first

C．last

D．past

6.

A．hardly

B．regularly

C．immediately

D．rarely

7.

A．responsibility

B．independence

C．importance

D．safety

8.

A．know

B．mention

C．remember

D．reach

9.

A．kept up with

B．caught up with

C．came up with

D．put up with

10.

A．fine

B．special

C．helpful

D．normal

11.

A．reminded

B．warned

C．persuaded

D．promised

12.

A．chance

B．gift

C．moment

D．reward

13.

A．lit

B．took

C．burned

D．cheered

14.

A．warmth

B．appreciation

C．calmness

D．joy

15.

A．matter

B．wonder

C．doubt

D．suppose

7 . 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。续写字数应为150左右。

It was Mother's Day and I was shopping at a local supermarket with my son who was five years old, Tennyson. As we were leaving after finishing our shopping, we realized that only minutes earlier an elderly woman had fallen over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground badly. Her husband was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock. Fortunately, a lot of people stopped to help out.

While we were walking towards the scene, Tennyson became very worried about what had happened to the elderly couple. He said to me, “Mom, it's not much fun falling over in front of everyone.” Seeing that there was a flower stall(摊位)at the front of the supermarket, he added, “Why shouldn't we buy the lady a flower? It will make her feel better.” I was amazed that he'd come up with this sweet idea. So we went over and told the flower seller what we wanted. “Just take it,” she replied. “I can't take your money for such a wonderful deed.”

By now medical staff had arrived, and were looking after the injured woman. There we saw the old man was also in great horror, but he tried to comfort his wife and held her hands tightly to encourage her to be strong. We gave the flower to the woman's husband and I told him it was from my son. At that time, the old man started crying and said, “Thank you very much.” He then turned to me, “You have a wonderful son. Happy Mother's Day to you.”

The man bent down and gave his wife the flower, telling her who it was from. Regardless of being badly hurt, the old lady looked up at Tennyson with love in her eyes and gave him a little smile. And my son bent down his body to the injured lady and tenderly said, “Happy Mother's Day to you, too.”

Paragraph 1:

After a moment, the elderly lady was taken into an ambulance,

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One year later,

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8 . 假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Mike来信说近期要来北京参加一个活动，希望你为他设计一个三天的旅行计划，推荐一些有中国特色的活动。请根据下面表格提示写一封回信。

时间	活动
第一天	参观故宫
第二天	参观中国美术馆
第三天	……

注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已经为你写好，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：故宫the Forbidden City       中国美术馆the National Art Museum of China
Dear Mike,

I'm so glad to hear you're coming to Beijing.

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Looking forward to meeting you soon!

Yours,

Li Hua

9 . When a leafy plant is under attack, it doesn't sit quietly. Back in 1983,two scientists,Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple trees (枫树) getting bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plants can get. These chemicals come from the injured parts of the plant and seem to be an alarm. What the plants send through the air is a mixture of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds,VOCs for short.

Scientists have found that all kinds of plants give out VOCs when being attacked. It's a plant's way of crying out. But is anyone listening? Obviously. Because we can watch the neighbors react.

Some plants give out smelly chemicals to keep insects away. But others do double duty. They give out smells designed to attract different insects who are natural enemies to the attackers. Once they arrive, the tables are turned. The attacker who was launching now becomes lunch.

In study after study, it appears that these chemical conversations help the neighbors. The damage is usually more serious on the first plant, but the neighbors, relatively speaking,stay safer because they heard the alarm and knew what to do.

Does this mean that plants talk-to-each-other? Scientists don't know. Maybe the first plant just made a cry of pain or was sending a message to its own branches, and so in effect,was talking to itself. Perhaps the neighbors just happened to "overhear” the cry. So information was exchanged,but it wasn’t a true, intentional back and forth.

Charles Darwin, over 150 years ago,imagined a world far busier, noisier and more intimate (亲密的) than the world we can see and hear. Our senses are weak. There's a whole lot going on.

1. What does a plant do when it is under attack?

A．It makes noises.	B．It stands quietly.
C．It gets help from other plants.	D．It sends out certain chemicals.

2. What will happen when the attackers' natural enemies arrive?

A．The attackers will get attacked

B．The insects will gather under the table.

C．The plants will get ready to fight back.

D．The attackers will give out smelly chemicals.

3. Scientists find from their studies that plants can_______

A．talk to one another on purpose

B．warn people of a coming danger

C．protect themselves against insects

D．help their neighbors who are under attack

4. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．The world is changing faster than ever.

B．People have stronger senses than before.

C．We don't fully understand the world.

D．People in Darwin's time were more imaginative

10 . Reading can be a social activity. Think of the people who belong to book groups. They choose books to read and then meet to discuss them. Now, the website BookCrossing.com turns the page on the traditional idea of a book group.

Members go on the site and register the books they own and would like to share BookCrossing provides an identification number to stick inside the book. Then the person leaves it in a public place, hoping that the book will have an adventure, traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds it.

Bruce Peterson, the managing director of BookCrossing, says, “The two things that change your life are the people you meet and the books you read. BookCrossing combines both.”

Members leave books-on park benches (长椅) and buses, in train stations and coffee shops. A Bookcrosser, the person who finds their book, will go to the site and record where they found it.

People who find a book can also leave a journal entry describing what they thought of it. E-mails are then sent to BookCrossing to keep them updated about where their books have been found. Bruce Peterson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.

BookCrossing is part of a trend (趋势) among people who want to get back to the “real” and not the virtual. The site now has more than one million members in more than one hundred thirty-five countries

1. Why does the author mention book groups in the first paragraph?

A．To explain what they are.

B．To introduce BookCrossing.

C．To stress the importance of reading.

D．To encourage readers to share their ideas.

2. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．The book.

B．The bench.

C．The letter.

D．The identification number.

3. What will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it?

A．Meet other readers to discuss it.

B．Keep it safe in his bookcase.

C．Pass it on to another reader.

D．Mail it back to its owner.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．Traditional reading habits.

B．Touring places on the Internet.

C．A trend of reading electronic books.

D．A new way to connect readers.