1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. For the local family in need of help, what did they get?

A．Gifts from many people.

B．Donations from a local newspaper.

C．A sum of money.

D．Free education.

2. According to the speaker, what should the school do?

A．Let students in before school.

B．Introduce a bank into the campus.

C．Office ice-cream and coffee.

D．Reduce the traffic jams around.

3. What does the speaker think of the town of Tibberton?

A．It lacks positive news.

B．It remains peaceful and quiet.

C．It should grow in a big city.

D．It is a place worth living in.

2 .

A．It deserves an award.

B．Its ending is not good enough.

C．Its special effects are not satisfying.

D．It is good except for the scary part.

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。 According to the 52-week money challenge, how much should be put away in week three?1.

A．$ 1.

B．$ 2.

C．$ 3.

D．$ 52.

2. What does the speaker suggest people do with their monthly income?

A．Put part of the money in a savings account.

B．Spend 2% of the salary on living expenses.

C．Deposit $1000 every month.

D．Pay the bills first.

3. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

A．Secrets of spending money wisely.

B．Saving money for family emergencies.

C．Methods of saving money.

D．The importance of saving money.

4 . Spanish-American Institute

Student Cub Notes

Free and Low Cost Gyms, Health Clubs and Pools

NYC Department of Parks Recreation Centers

www.nycgovparks.org

Recreation Centers: The NYC Department of Parks has many Recreation Centers throughout New York City. Recreation Centers offer a wide range of free and membership programs and services. Some have indoor swimming pools. Almost all have weight rooms, basketball courts, dance studios, boxing rings, art studios, game rooms, etc. 

All Recreation Centers offer a wide range of programs such as aerobics, dance, tai chi, fencing, computer classes, and art. Many programs are free and open to the general public but many require membership. 

You do not need to be a New York City resident to use a Recreation Center. You may use your annual membership at any and all Centers. Use one near the Spanish-American Institute and then use one near your home. 

Costs: Free and membership programs. Standard annual membership is $50 for Recreation Centers and $75 for Recreation Centers with pools. (Do you know anyone 55 and older? The senior membership is only $10 a year.)

Standard annual membership provides scheduled access to the gym, pool, and all the other facilities. Instructor-led courses such as aerobics, martial arts, music, or yoga may require an additional fee. 

Membership and Program Information: Go to the www.nycgovparks.org home page. On the “Facilities” menu, click on “Recreation Centers.” On the “Recreation Centers” page, you will find information about membership and fees. You will also see links to Recreation Facilities by borough (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island).

On the “Facilities” menu, you may also want to check out other NYC Department of Parks facilities such as beaches, ice skating rinks, nature centers, running tracks, soccer fields, etc.

Recreation Centers: There are several Parks Department Recreation Centers in each borough. After you go to the “Recreation Centers” page and click on a borough, you will find a list of the centers in that borough with their addresses, phone numbers, and web links. The list will look like that for Manhattan below. Click on the link for a particular Center to learn more about its services, schedules, and programs.

1. What special benefits can an annual member of Recreation Centers enjoy?

A．Having access to all the facilities all year.

B．Experiencing all programs and services free.

C．Taking free Instructor-led courses.

D．Using only the center near your home free.

2. If your parents and grandparents (both over sixty) want to get the memberships, how much will they pay?

A．At least $20.

B．At least $120.

C．At least $180.

D．At least $220.

3. You will probably fail to find ________ on the www.nycgovparks.org home page.

A．the cost for various memberships	B．the locations of recreations centers
C．the staff and provided services	D．the facilities, phones and web links

5 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. disorder              B. influencing              C. escalates               D. reset                    E. satisfaction F. fruitless              G. refreshed              H. coincidence              I. functions              J. powerful K. recommended

The best thing you can do for your health: sleep well

Do you think you got enough sleep this past week? Can you remember the last time you woke up without an alarm clock, feeling     1    , not needing caffeine? If the answer to any of these questions is “no,” you are not alone. Two-thirds of adults throughout all developed nations fail to obtain the     2     eight hours of nightly sleep.

Insufficient sleep is now one of the most significant lifestyle factors     3     whether or not you will develop Alzheimer’s disease. During sleep, a remarkable sewage system in the brain, called the glymphatic system,     4     at its peak. As you enter deep sleep, this sanitization system clears the brain of a sticky, poisonous protein linked to Alzheimer’s, known as beta amyloid(淀粉样蛋白). Without sufficient sleep, you fail to get that power clean. With each passing night of insufficient sleep, that Alzheimer’s disease risk     5    , like compounding interest on a loan.

Perhaps you have also noticed a desire to eat more when you’re tired? This is no     6    . Too little sleep swells concentrations of a hormone that makes you feel hungry while checking a companion hormone that otherwise signals food     7    . Full as you are, you will still want to eat more. It’s a recipe linked to weight gain in sleep-deficient adults and children alike.

Worse, should you try to diet but don’t get enough sleep while doing so, it is     8    , since up to 70% of the weight you lose will come from lean body mass, not fat. Turn these facts around and you realize that plentiful sleep is a     9     tool for controlling your appetite, your weight and keeping your body in shape.

Put simply: sleep – a consistent seven- to nine-hour opportunity each night – is the single most effective thing we can do to     10     our brain and body health each day, and the reason why I strongly suggest and respect sleep scientifically and personally.

6 . Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Barry Jenkins: ‘When you climb the ladder, you send it back down’

“So, you saw the film?” Barry Jenkins is eager to ask the minute we are introduced. He gives good eye contact through those stylish thick-rimmed glasses – not the big-time, Oscar-winning writer-director speaking, but a nervous artist, anxious     1     the new work he is starting to screen. I love it, I tell him. If Beale Street Could Talk may be only Jenkins’ third feature-length film,     2     it has already been nominated for three Oscars (best adapted screenplay, best supporting actress, best score), just two years     3     his Moonlight walked away with the Academy Award for best film. A passionate film about race and love, it’s an     4     (add) pleasure to see black characters of such complexity on the big screen.

Adapted from James Baldwin’s 1974 novel, Beale Street tells the story in which the personal experiences of a young black couple     5     (interweave) with the big picture in 1970s Harlem. When Tish (KiKi Layne) becomes pregnant, they plan to marry – until her fiancé Fonny (Stephan James) is set up by a racist police officer for a rape he did not commit. The film explores the different reactions of their siblings (兄弟姐妹) and parents, led by Regina King in a standout performance as Tish’s mother, as they fight for Fonny’s freedom.

Baldwin has been dead for 30 years, but his depiction of the fight against a country’s powerful prejudice is a sad reminder     6     not enough has changed. Yet Jenkins turns a bleak story into a fascinating romance, as the young lovers strive     7     (regard) as human beings. With its lingering, saturated-colour photography – the director has cited Wong Kar-Wai’s In The Mood For Love as an influence – Beale Street is one of     8     (visually-arresting) films I’ve seen.

Beale Street     9     (film) on location in New York and the Dominican Republic – filling in for Puerto Rico, still devastated by 2017’s Hurricane Maria. It was shot on an Arri Alexa 65 camera. Throughout the film, as he did in Moonlight, the director lingers over often wordless scenes between his characters,     10     (present) them as a series of moving photographs.

7 . For years, studies have found that first-generation college students — those who do not have a parent with a college degree — lag behind other students on a range of education achievement factors. Their grades are lower and their dropout rates are higher. But since such students are most likely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education, colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recruit more of them. This has created a ‘paradox’ in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has ‘continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close’ the achievement gap based on social class, according to the depressing beginning of a paper set to be published in the journal Psychological Science.

But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach (which involves a one-hour, next-to-no-cost program) can close 63 percent of the achievement gap (measured by such factors as grades) between first-generation and other students.

The authors of the paper are from different universities, and their findings are based on a study involving 147 students (who completed the project) at an unnamed private university. First generation was defined as not having a parent with a four-year college degree. Most of the first-generation students (59.1 percent) were recipients of Pell Grants, a federal grant for undergraduates with financial needs, while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students with at least one parent with a four-year degree.

Their thesis — that a relatively modest intervention could have a big impact — was based on the view that first-generation students may be most lacking not in potential but in practical knowledge about how to deal with the issues that face most college students. They cite past research by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievement gap.

Many first-generation students “struggle to navigate the middle-class culture of higher education, learn the rules of the game, and take advantage of college resources,” they write. And this becomes more of a problem when colleges don’t talk about the class advantage and disadvantages of different groups of students. Because U.S. colleges and universities seldom acknowledge how social class can affect students’ educational experience, many first-generation students lack sight about why they are struggling and do not understand how students like them can improve.

1. The authors of the research article are optimistic because _____________.

A．the problem is solvable

B．their approach is costless

C．the recruiting rate has increased

D．their findings appeal to students

2. The study suggests that most first-generation students _____________.

A．study at private universities

B．are from single-parent families

C．are in need of financial support

D．have failed their college education

3. The authors of the paper believe that first-generation students _____________.

A．are actually indifferent to the achievement gap

B．are inexperienced in handling their issues at college

C．may lack opportunities to apply for research projects

D．can have a potential influence on other students

4. We may infer from the last paragraph that _____________.

A．universities often reject the culture of the middle-class

B．students are usually to blame for their lack of resources

C．social class greatly helps enrich one’s educational experience

D．colleges are partly responsible for the problem in question

8 . Irish dance: The Irish International Dance Company, one of the most dynamic dance troupes in the world, will tour China with its classic production “Spirit of the Dance-the New Millennium.”

The dancers include such famous names as Patricia Murray, one of the Irish dancing champions, and first-rate ballerina Claire Holding.

Sponsored by China National Culture and Art Company Ltd., the dancing troupe will give three performances at the Century Theatre.

Time: 7:30 pm, June 23-25

Place: Century Theatre, 40 Liangmaqiaolu, Chaoyang District Telephone: 6551-8888

Piano solos: Twenty Chinese and foreign piano music works will be played by three young, promising pianists from the China Central Conservatory of Music.

Programmes includes: “Consolation No 3 in D-flat major” by Liszt, “For Elise” by Beethoven, “Turkish March” by Mozart, “Waltz in C-sharp minor” and “A Minute Waltz” by Chopin, and “Hungarian Dance” by Brahms.

Time: 7:30 pm, June 16

Place: Beijing Concert Hall, I Beixinhuajie, Xicheng District

Telephone: 6605-5812

1. How many performances will the Irish dancing troupe give between June 23 and 25?

A．One.

B．Two.

C．Three.

D．Four.

2. Whose works will NOT be played at the concert?

A．Chopin.

B．Schumann

C．Beethoven

D．Liszt

3. Who sponsored these performances?

A．the Irish International Dance Company

B．the Century Theater

C．China National Culture and Art Company Ltd.

D．Art Company Ltd.

9 . It was a long way up the humble zipper (拉链) to become the mechanical wonder that has kept our lives “together” in many ways. The zipper had passed through the hands of several gifted inventors, though none _________ the general public to accept the zipper as part of everyday life. It was the magazine and fashion industry that made zipper the popular item it is today.

The story began when Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, received a patent (专利) in 1851 for an “Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure.” However, it didn’t go much further beyond that simple _________ description.

Perhaps it was the success of the sewing machine, that stopped Elias from _________ marketing his clothing closure system. As a result, Howe missed his chance to become the _________ “Father of the Zip.”

Forty-four years later, inventor Whitcomb Judson marketed a “Clasp Locker” device _________ to the system described in the 1851 Howe patent. Being first to market, Whitcomb got _________ for being the “inventor of the zipper.” The clasp locker was released at the 1893 Chicago world’s Fair by his universal fastener (扣件) company and was met with little _________ success. Not many products were sold at that time.

It was an electrical engineer named Gideon Sundback who helped make the zipper the hit it is today.

_________ hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company as an ordinary employee, Sundback relied on his excellent design skills to rise to the position as head designer. When Sunback’s wife died in 1911, the sad husband busied himself at the design table focusing on the _________ of the fastener. In December of 1913, he came up with what would become the __________ zipper. __________, it still took 20 more years to persuade the fashion industry to seriously promote the new closure on clothing.

In the 1930s, a sales campaign began for children’s clothing featuring zippers. The campaign advertised zippers as a way to promote __________ in young children as the devices made it possible for them lo dress by themselves. And Esquire magazine declared the zipper the “Newest Tailoring Idea for Men.” saying it would __________ “the possibility of unintentional and embarrassing dressing moments.”

Today the zipper is everywhere and is used in clothing, luggage, leather goods and __________ other objects. Thousands of zipper miles are produced daily to meet the needs of consumers, __________ the early efforts of the many famous zipper inventors and developers.

1.

A．convinced

B．advised

C．permitted

D．invited

2.

A．manufacturer

B．function

C．price

D．material

3.

A．imagining

B．delaying

C．pursuing

D．rewarding

4.

A．recognized

B．upgraded

C．interpreted

D．pretended

5.

A．agreeable

B．familiar

C．similar

D．inferior

6.

A．edition

B．credit

C．method

D．wealth

7.

A．commercial

B．private

C．domestic

D．potential

8.

A．Purposefully

B．Generally

C．Originally

D．Decidedly

9.

A．brand

B．assessment

C．packing

D．improvement

10.

A．profitable

B．scarce

C．modern

D．noticeable

11.

A．Moreover

B．For example

C．However

D．On the contrary

12.

A．self-awareness

B．self-reliance

C．self-defense

D．self-guidance

13.

A．avoid

B．worsen

C．balance

D．personalize

14.

A．mechanical

B．countless

C．reliable

D．portable

15.

A．in name of

B．thanks to

C．in addition to

D．in case of

10 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. spread       B. predicted       C. boomed       D. redefined       E. agricultural        F. trade G. accelerated       H. continued       I. exchanging       J. seeking       K. continents

Globalization is term used to describe how     1     and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place.

When did globalization begin? Many scholars say it started with Columbus’s voyage 10 the New World in 1492. People traveled to nearby and faraway places well before Columbus’s voyage,     2     their ideas, products, and customs along the way. The Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes across China, Central Asia, and the Mediterranean used between 50 B. C. E. and 250 C. E. is perhaps the most well-known early example. As globalization     3    , new technologies played a key role in the Silk Road trade. Advances in metallurgy (冶金术) led to the creation of coins; advances in transportation led to the building of roads connecting the major empires of the day; and increased     4     production meant more food could be trafficked between locales. Along with Chinese silk, Roman glass, and Arabian spices, ideas such as Buddhist beliefs and the secrets of paper-making also     5     via these tendrils of trade.

Unquestionably, these types of exchanges were     6     in the Age of Exploration, when European explorers were     7     new sea routes to the spices and silks of Asia. Again, technology played an important role in the maritime trade routes that flourished between old and newly discovered     8     Trade and idea exchange now extended to a previously unconnected part of the world, where ships carrying plants, animals, and Spanish silver between the Old World and the New also carried Christian missionaries.

The web of globalization     9     to spread out through the Age of Revolution, when ideas about liberty and equality spread like fire from America to France to Latin America and beyond. It rode the waves of industrialization, colonization, and war through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, powered by the invention of factories, railways, steamboats, cars, and planes.

With the Information Age, globalization went into overdrive. Advances in computer and communications technology launched a new global era and     10     what it meant to be “connected.”