1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What subject is added this year?

A．Comedy.

B．Mystery.

C．World travel.

2. Who is Jenny Paige?

A．A children’s author.

B．A short story writer.

C．A writer of travel books.

3. What do we know about the first prize winner?

A．He will have a chance to travel.

B．A £2,000 prize will be given to him.

C．His story will be published in a magazine.

4. When is the deadline?

A．September 1st.

B．September 25th.

C．October 1st.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the woman doing?

A．Making a reply.

B．Getting some advice.

C．Asking for information.

2. What sport is the most popular at the camping center?

A．Horse-riding.

B．Sailing.

C．Boating.

3. When do groups always arrive at the camping center?

A．On Friday.

B．On Saturday.

C．On Sunday.

4. What is the cost for a child?

A．$425.

B．$450.

C．$480.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Where is the woman going?

A．New York.

B．Los Angeles.

C．Chicago.

2. What does the woman care most about the flight?

A．The position of the airport.

B．The time to leave.

C．The price.

4 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A．Neighbors.

B．Friends.

C．Strangers.

2. Where does the woman come form?

A．Indiana.

B．California.

C．New York.

3. Why did the woman move here?

A．Because of the hot weather.

B．Because of the cold weather.

C．Because of the dry weather.

5 . According to a survey, in Washington, DC, only 69 percent of public school students graduate from high school on time. Many factors influence that low rate. One of the most important ones is whether the people around the students expect them to succeed.

So, for the past 40 years, a DC organization has stepped in to give around 10,000 students the support and positive environment they need to thrive. This organization, called Higher Achievement, provides students with a welcoming space, help with class work, and caring teachers. More than 95 percent of students who complete Higher Achievement graduate from high school on time.

Katherine Roboff is the group’s executive director in the DC area. She gives several reasons for the group’s success. One is timing. Higher Achievement does not work with students who are already in high school. It works with students in middle school. They start High Achievement at fifth or sixth grade—in US, that is usually age 11 or 12.

Robolf says research shows that if students are doing well academically in eighth grade—around age 13—they will have a greater chance of graduating from high school and going to college. In other words, what happens in middle school has a huge effect. The years between ages 10 and 13 may affect a student’s future more than anything                                        that happens academically in high school.

Roboff explains that students participate in Higher Achievement after school and during the summer, when public schools take a break of about two months. High Achievement students do homework, have community meetings, and work one-on-one with a mentor（导师）.

The purpose of the program is to help them those after-school and summer hours to become better prepared academically and to develop their leadership skills and confidence so that by the time they get into eighth grade they are ready to get into some of the top high schools.”

1. What can we know from the second paragraph?

A．Higher Achievement works with college students.

B．Many students have doubts about the organization.

C．Higher Achievement has spread throughout the world.

D．Higher Achievement has helped many students.

2. If students are doing well academically in eighth grade, _________.

A．they are certain to go to college

B．they are to succeed when they grow up

C．they are more likely to finish high school on time

D．they don’t need any help in their studies

3. Who are the working targets of Higher Achievement?

A．Those students in higher school.

B．Those students in middle school.

C．Those students who don’t work well.

D．Those students whose family can’t afford.

4. Which of the following could be the title of the text?

A．Higher Achievement Helps Students

B．Public School Students Need Help

C．Katherine Roboff Works with Students

D．Higher Achievement Looks After Students

6 . When it comes to the most famous 20th century painters of the United States, Grandma Moses should be mentioned, although she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies. As she once said to herself, “I would never sit back in rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.” No one could have had a more active old age.

She was born on a farm in New York State, one of five boys and five girls. At 12, she left home and was in domestic service until at 27 she married Thomas Moses, the hired hand of one of her employers. They farmed most of their lives, first in Virginia and then in New York State, at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children, of whom five survived; her husband died in 1927.

Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery（刺绣) pictures as a hobby, but only changed to oils in old age because her hands became too stiff(僵硬的) to sew and she still wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at the local drugstore and at a market and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought all that she painted. Three of the pictures were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 1930’s and her death, she produced some 2,000 pictures: careful and lively portrayals of the country life she had known for so long, with a wonderful sense of color and form. “I think really hard till I think of something really pretty, and then I paint it,” she said.

1. What can we learn about Grandma Moses?

A．She painted oils as a child.

B．Her marriage life was not happy.

C．She still led an active life when she was old.

D．She stopped painting in her late seventies.

2. Which of the following words can best describe her life?

A．Easy-going& active.	B．Hardworking& creative
C．Outgoing& confident.	D．Reserved& independent

3. What does the underlined word “portrayals” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Descriptions.

B．Stages.

C．Surveys.

D．Directions.

4. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．How she loves art since she was a little girl.

B．Why she began her career as a painter.

C．How she became a successful painter.

D．Why she was the most famous painter in the United States.

7 . My sister is nine years old, a little bit fat and doesn’t _______ really well at school. She is heavily made fun of and thus has developed some _______ and distrust towards adults, who usually don’t put high hopes in her.

Yesterday we went to an art _______ together. There were paintings from kids with disabilities. My little girl has _______ eyes, for the paintings she liked most were also the best of the show. She also voluntarily helped to _______ the chairs and table for a sharing session（分享会）, painted by herself alongside new friends while I attended the sharing, and _______helped me to do many other things, which doesn’t _______ often at home as she’s usually _______ in her iPad.

We went to a book store. I bought a book written by a mom _______ her journey with her autistic（自闭症的）son. On the bus back home, I briefly ________ the book to my sister, and to my surprise she was truly ________. She kept asking me to tell more stories about this friend in the book who ________ with small things in life. This is the first time I’ve seen her so interested in a ________. Usually when she talks to me, she describes events at school and at home ________ a clear focus. I’m very ________ that the life of an unknown ________ has found its way into this little girl’s heart.

I’m very thankful for the ________ of books, for the beauty that my sister showed to me, and for the time we had together. I pray that I can ________ seeing clearly the wonderful things in her, so that whenever the not-so-kind world puts her ________, I can remind her how truly ________ she has always been.

1.

A．do

B．work

C．run

D．rest

2.

A．appreciation

B．doubt

C．satisfaction

D．dependence

3.

A．investigation

B．interview

C．ceremony

D．exhibition

4.

A．curious

B．particular

C．sharp

D．doubtful

5.

A．deliver

B．design

C．remove

D．arrange

6.

A．simply

B．cheerfully

C．secretly

D．unwillingly

7.

A．happen

B．approve

C．depend

D．assess

8.

A．attached

B．admitted

C．absorbed

D．adjusted

9.

A．describing

B．advertising

C．operating

D．protecting

10.

A．designed

B．introduced

C．sent

D．owed

11.

A．tired

B．skeptical

C．interested

D．negative

12.

A．plays

B．deals

C．meets

D．struggles

13.

A．topic

B．painting

C．story

D．title

14.

A．with

B．for

C．without

D．in

15.

A．disappointed

B．touched

C．defeated

D．puzzled

16.

A．party

B．family

C．student

D．stranger

17.

A．power

B．content

C．subject

D．characters

18.

A．stop

B．keep

C．prevent

D．rid

19.

A．on

B．up

C．off

D．down

20.

A．mild

B．rough

C．wonderful

D．unbearable

8 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

How Dolly was born

Professor Wilmut's experiment involved three adult female sheep. He first     1     (take) a cell from sheep A, He then implanted (植入) the genetic information into     2     (it) nucleus (细胞核) with an egg cell from sheep B, whose nucleus had been removed. Tiny electric shocks     3     (use) to stimulate ( 激 发 ) this new “combination” egg cell to divide.     4     (final), the new embryo was implanted into the body of sheep C, where it developed just like any other sheep embryo.

In 1996, his determination and     5     (patient) paid off. Dolly became the first sheep to be born without a father and was also the first genetically     6     (identity) copy of an adult. As the egg cell gradually splits, its millions     7     offspring cells specialize into muscle cells or skin cells, for example,     8     (mouse) and cattle have now also been cloned from an adult. These clones have also been cloned, producing three generations of healthy clones.

    9     was thought that a specialized cell could never become a different cell, with all the genetic instructions     10     (form) the entire creature.

9 . Throughout history scientists have risked their health and their lives in their search for the truth.

Sir Isaac Newton, the seventeenth century scientist, was very smart, but that didn't stop him from doing   some pretty stupid things. In his laboratory in Cambridge he often did the strangest experiments. Once, while testing how light passes through lenses, he put a long needle into his eye, pushed it to the back, and then moved it around just to see what would happen. Luckily, nothing long-lasting did. On another occasion he stared at the sun for as long as he could bear, to discover what effect this would have on his sight. Again he escaped suffering permanent damage, though he had to spend some days in a darkened room before his eyes recovered.

In the 1750s the Swedish chemist Karl Scheele was the first person to find a way to produce phosphorus. He in fact discovered eight more chemical elements including chlorine , though he didn't get any praise for them. He was a very clever scientist, but his one failing was a curious habit of tasting a little of every substance he worked with. This risky practice finally caught up with him, and in 1786 he was found dead in his laboratory surrounded by a large number of dangerous chemicals, any of which might have been responsible for his death.

Eugene Shoemaker was a respected geologist. He spent a large part of his life studying craters on the moon, and how they were formed, and later did research into the comets of the planet Jupiter. In 1997 he and his wife were in the Australian desert where they went every year to search for places where comets might have hit the earth. While driving in the Tanami desert, normally one of the emptiest places in the world, another vehicle crashed into them and Shoemaker was killed on the spot. Some of his ashes were sent to the moon aboard the Lunar Prospector spacecraft and left there — he is the only person who has had this honor.

1. Which word is similar to the underlined word “permanent” in Paragraph 2?

A．Brief.

B．Lasting.

C．Slight.

D．Ordinary.

2. What do we know about Karl Scheele according to this text?

A．He was killed by tasting phosphorus.

B．He killed himself with some dangerous chemicals.

C．His habit of tasting chemicals might account for his death.

D．He got a large number of honors for discovering many chemical elements.

3. Which statement about Shoemaker is true?

A．He was knocked over and died in a desert.	B．All of his ashes were placed on the moon.
C．One comet of Jupiter was named after him.	D．A spacecraft carrying him traveled around Jupiter.

4. What does the text mainly talk about?

A．Three great scientists' famous experiments.	B．Three great scientists' great achievements.
C．Three great scientists' sacrifice for the truth.	D．Three great scientists' special honors.

10 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. At what time did the accident happen?

A．At 5:00 a.m..

B．At 11:00 a.m..

C．At 5:00 p.m..

2. How many students got injured in the accident?

A．Ten.

B．Eleven.

C．Twelve.

3. Who is probably the speaker?

A．A teacher.

B．A policeman.

C．A broadcaster.