1 .

A．Try to find a show that doesn’t accept reservations.

B．Wait to buy the ticket when someone cancels the reservation.

C．Go with people who have extra tickets.

D．Pay more money to buy the ticket from someone else.

2 . Digital Heaven

If you had the opportunity to live forever, would you take it? The ________ to keeping your body alive indefinitely still seem unbeatable, but some scientists think there is another ________ opened up by digital technology: creating a digital copy of your “self” and keeping that “alive” online long after your physical body has ________ to function.

________, the proposal is to clone a person electronically. Unlike the familiar physical clones — offspring that have ________ 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 ________ the development of nanotechnology. Ray Kurzweil — one of the prophets (先知) of artificial intelligence — ________ that within two or three decades we will have nano transmitters that can be ________ into the bloodstream. In the capillaries of the brain they would line up alongside the neurons and ________ the details of the cerebral (大脑的) electronic activity. They would be able to ________ that information to a receiver inside a special helmet or cap, so there would be no need for any wires extending from the scalp (头皮).

As a further step, Ray Kurzweil also consider the nano transmitters being able to connect you to a world of virtual reality on the Internet, similar to what was depicted 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. ________ sending your friends e-mails you would agree to meet up on some virtual tropical beach.

For Ray this would be, quite ________, heaven. Once you upload the brain onto the Internet and log on to that virtual world the body can be left to rot while your virtual self carries on playing Counter Strike forever.

Generations of Christians believed in Christ partly because his rebirth held out the ________ that we too might be able to enjoy life after death. But why wait for the Second Coming when you can have a shot of nanobots and upload your brain onto the Internet and live on as an immortal virtual surfer?

Who needs faith when you’ve got ________?

1.

A．devotion

B．reference

C．obstacle

D．priority

2.

A．possibility

B．challenge

C．pressure

D．judgment

3.

A．revealed

B．adapted

C．preserved

D．ceased

4.

A．In consequence

B．In effect

C．In contrast

D．In total

5.

A．relevant

B．identical

C．distinctive

D．limited

6.

A．creative

B．ambitious

C．previous

D．conscious

7.

A．relies on

B．applies to

C．sums up

D．figures out

8.

A．proposes

B．predicts

C．quotes

D．recognizes

9.

A．processed

B．admitted

C．injected

D．turned

10.

A．update

B．promote

C．arrange

D．detect

11.

A．translate

B．transmit

C．transplant

D．transform

12.

A．Regardless of

B．Aside from

C．Other than

D．Instead of

13.

A．typically

B．literally

C．instantly

D．faithfully

14.

A．strength

B．request

C．clue

D．promise

15.

A．mind

B．soul

C．broadband

D．data

3 . Directions: Write an English composition in around 120 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
近来，国家发布防止青少年沉迷网络游戏的禁令，规定所有网络游戏企业不得在周一至周四向青少年提供游戏服务。作为一名高中生，你是支持还是反对这一禁令？请表明观点，并阐述理由。
（沉迷于       be addicted to......）
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4 . For those who make journeys across the world, the speed of travel today has turned the countries into a series of villages. Distances between them appear no greater to a modern traveler than those which once faced men as they walked from village to village. Jet planes fly people from one end of the earth to the other, allowing them a freedom of movement undreamt of a hundred years ago.

Yet some people wonder if the revolution in travel has gone too far. A price has been paid, they say, for the conquest(征服) of time and distance. Travel is something to be enjoyed, not endured. The boat offers leisure and time enough to appreciate the ever-changing sights and sounds of a journey. A journey by train also has a special charm about it. Lakes and forests and wild, open plains sweeping past your carriage window create a grand view in which time and distance mean nothing. On board a plane, however, there is just the blank blue of the sky filling the narrow window of the airplane. The soft lighting, in-flight films and gentle music make up the only world you know, and the hours progress slowly.

Then there is the time spent being “processed” at a modern airport. People are conveyed(运送) like robots along walkways; baggage is weighed, tickets produced, examined and produced yet again before the passengers move to another waiting area. Journeys by rail and sea take longer, yes, but the hours devoted to being “processed” at departure and arrival in airports are luckily absent. No wonder, then, that the modern high-speed trains are winning back passengers from the airlines.

Man, however, is now a world traveler and cannot refuse the airplane. The working lives of too many people depend upon it; whole new industries have been built around its design and operation. The holiday maker, too, with limited time to spend, patiently endures the busy airports and limited space of the flight to gain those extra hours and even days, relaxing in the sun. Speed controls people’s lives; time saved, in work or play, is the important thing—or so we are told. Perhaps those first horsemen, riding free across the wild, open plains, were enjoying a better world than the one we know today. They could travel at will, and the clock was not their master.

1. What does the writer try to express in the first paragraph?

A．Travel by plane has speeded up the growth of villages.

B．The speed of modern travel has made distances relatively short.

C．The freedom of movement has helped people realize their dreams.

D．Man has been fond of traveling rather than staying in one place.

2. How does the writer support the underlined statement?

A．By giving examples.

B．By analyzing cause and effect.

C．By following the order of time.

D．By giving instructions.

3. Passengers are turning back to modern high-speed trains because______.

A．they pay less for the tickets.

B．they feel safer during the travel.

C．they can enjoy higher speed of travel.

D．they don’t have to waste time being “processed”.

4. What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Air travel benefits people and industries.

B．Train Travel has some advantages over air travel.

C．The high speed of air travel is gained at a cost.

D．Great changes have taken place in modern travel.

6 . Teens who have good, supportive relationships with theachers enjoy better health as adults, according to a research.

“This research suggests that improving students’relationships with teachers could have important, positive and long-lasting effects beyond just academic success,” said Jinho Kim, the author of the study. “It could also have important health implications in the long run.”

Previous research has suggested that teens, social relationships might be linked to health outcomes in adulthood-perhaps because poor relationships can lead to chronic (慢性的) stress which can raise a person’s risk of health problems over the lifespan, according to Kim. However, it is not clear whether the link between teen relationships and lifetime health is causal ——it could be that other factors, such as different family backgrounds, might cause both relationship problems in adolescence (青少年的)and poor health in adulthood. Also, most research has focused on teens relationships with their peers, rather than on their relationships with teachers.

To explore those questions further, Kim analyzed data on nearly 20,000 participants from the Add Health study that followed participants for 13 years, from seventh grade into early adulthood.The participants included more than 3, 400 pairs of brothers and sisters. As teens, participants answered questions such as, “How often have you had trouble getting along with other students?” “How much do you agree that friends care about you?” “How often have you had trouble getting along with your teachers?” and “How much do you agree that teachers care about you?” As adults participants were asked about their physical and mental health. Researchers also took measures of physical health，such as blood pressure and BMI(体质指数).

Kim found that, as expected, participants who had reported better relationships with both their peers and teachers in middle school and high school also reported better physical and mental health in their mid-20s. However, when he controlled for family background by looking at pairs of brothers and sisters together, only the link between good teacher relationships and adult health remained significant.

The results suggest that teacher relationships are even more important than previously realized and that schools should invest in training teachers on how to build warm and supportive relationships with their students, according to Kim.

1. According to the research mentioned in the passage, ________ .

A．the link between teen relationships and lifetime health is obvious

B．teen relationships with their peers determine their lifetime health

C．students relationships with teachers decide their academic success

D．good relationships with teachers can cause better health as adults

2. By “However, it is not clear whether the link between teen relationships and lifetime health is causal” in Para. 3, the author means that________.

A．teen relationships with teachers were not studied before

B．family background is the main factor in improving mental health

C．relationship problems in adolescence can cause poor health in adulthood

D．teen relationship is not the only factor that affects the lifetime health

3. Paragraph 4 is mainly about________.

A．how the research was conducted

B．what questions were explored

C．how physical health was measured

D．what kind of participants were studied

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．All the teachers knew how to get along well with students in the past

B．More attention should be paid to the students relationships with teachers

C．The importance of student-teacher relationships was fully realized before

D．Schools know how to train teachers to improve the relationships with students.

9 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once.

A. positive   B. relationship C. obviously D. aged AB. improve AC. performance AD. significant BC. similarly BD. electronic CD. greet

Being able to multitask-- doing several things at the same time is considered a welcome skill by most people. But if we consider the situation of the young people    1    from eight to eighteen, we should think again.

What we often see nowadays is that young people juggle (玩）an ever larger number of     2     devices as they study. While working, they also surf on the Internet, send out emails, answer the telephone and listen to music on their ipads. In a sense, they spend a     3     amount of time in fruitless efforts as they multitask.

Multitasking is even changing the     4     between family members. As young people pay so much attention to their own worlds, they seem to have no time to spend with the other people around them. They can no longer     5     family members when they enter the house, nor can they eat at the family table.

Multitasking also affects young people's    6     at university and in the workplace. When asked about their opinion of the effect of modern gadgets(器具)on their performance of tasks, many young people gave a     7     response. However, the response from the worlds of education and business was not quite as positive. Educators feel that multitasking by children has a serious effect on later development of study skills. They believe that many college students now need help to     8     their study skills;     9    , employers feel that young people entering the job market need to be taught all over again, as modern gadgets have made it unnecessary for them to learn special skills to do their work.

10 . Nothing seems more inevitable than aging and death ---- not even taxes. Every plant, animal and person you have ever seen will _________ die. But some recent research suggests that aging as we know it may not be inevitable. Indeed, as our _________ of it grows, aging can be viewed not as an unchangeable reality from which there is no escape, but as the product of biological processes that we may be able to _________ someday.

We already know that some animals do not seem to age. Many cold-water ocean fish and some amphibians (两栖动物) never _________ a fixed size; they continue to grow bigger, to be able to reproduce and to live until something kills them. What these _________ seem to be telling us is that something in their genes ---- and possibly in ours ---- controls the _________ of aging, and that aging is not the fate of every living thing.

_________ the history of life on earth, one of the most common difficulties that animals (and their cells) have faced has been a lack of food. About 70 years ago, scientists discovered that when animals are forced to live on 30 to 40 percent fewer calories than they would _________ eat, something unusual happens: they become _________ to most age-related diseases ---- cancer, heart disease, diabetes (糖尿病) ---- and live 30 to 50 percent longer. Restricting calories __________ aging. But what are the __________ genes that preserve vitality( 生命力 ) and starve off（抑制） diseases?

About 15 years ago, armed with powerful new molecular-research techniques, a few scientists began to __________ these genetic phenomena. They have discovered that a gene called Sir2 ---- which is present in all animals, including humans ---- is __________ for the health benefits of calorie restriction, perhaps by repairing our DNA. But if we had to restrict our calorie intake by 30 to 40 percent, would it be of any __________ use? Few of us would be capable of restricting our diets so severely that we were constantly __________ : whether or not it made life longer, it would surely make life feel longer.

1.

A．suddenly

B．eventually

C．generally

D．unexpectedly

2.

A．desire

B．feeling

C．understanding

D．dream

3.

A．develop

B．design

C．control

D．solve

4.

A．reach

B．acquire

C．require

D．indicate

5.

A．objects

B．samples

C．items

D．creatures

6.

A．nature

B．system

C．speed

D．condition

7.

A．Through

B．Throughout

C．Beyond

D．Across

8.

A．rarely

B．occasionally

C．normally

D．mainly

9.

A．resistant

B．similar

C．essential

D．accessible

10.

A．quickens

B．slows

C．avoids

D．overcomes

11.

A．horrible

B．extra

C．specific

D．original

12.

A．investigate

B．illustrate

C．record

D．prove

13.

A．famous

B．generous

C．responsible

D．convenient

14.

A．fashionable

B．practical

C．immediate

D．daily

15.

A．happy

B．depressed

C．hungry

D．scared