| ran；later；anyone；end；fast；playing；parents；that；If； however |
When I was young, I liked to play jokes on people I knew, especially on my
Another day I went swimming with my friends in the sea. I wanted to play a joke on them. In the beginning, I swam
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2 . We have, like in many more countries, refugees(难民)in our country. Through the years I have tried to
Only by
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Problems with the kids
They and many more new, people are trying to
| A．continue | B．help | C．escape | D．explain |
| A．jobs | B．tests | C．tools | D．signs |
| A．devote | B．say | C．forecast | D．suffer |
| A．blowing up | B．getting along | C．showing up | D．going on |
| A．learning | B．speaking | C．mastering | D．expressing |
| A．served | B．judged | C．Organized | D．rewarded |
| A．kinds | B．times | C．moments | D．chances |
| A．calmer | B．nicer | C．sadder | D．harder |
| A．in case of | B．in front of | C．because of | D．instead of |
| A．mostly | B．peacefully | C．finally | D．personally |
| A．mean | B．cruel | C．rich | D．different |
| A．lifestyle | B．accent | C．attitude | D．disaster |
| A．moved | B．worried | C．determined | D．excited |
| A．carefully | B．hurriedly | C．quickly | D．smoothly |
| A．Fear | B．happiness | C．support | D．matter |
| A．generous | B．legal | C．surprising | D．great |
| A．give | B．burn | C．set | D．make |
| A．order | B．trouble | C．luck | D．pleasure |
| A．Prove | B．Doubt | C．dream | D．believe |
| A．Vote | B．rescue | C．go | D．compete |
3 . Each applicant to Harvard College is considered with great care. We consider each applicant to Harvard College as a whole person, and put enormous care into evaluating every application. We hope you will explore the information in this section to understand what we look for in our admissions process.
How to Apply
Submit your application through the Common Application, the Coalition Application, or the Universal College Application. Each is treated equally by the Admissions Committee. Complete and submit your materials as soon as possible to ensure full and timely consideration of your application. View our Application Tips for step-by-step information.
When to Apply
| Date | Deadline | Date | Deadline |
| November 1 | Early Action Deadline | March 1 | Financial Aid Application deadline |
| November 1 | Early Financial Aid Application deadline | Late March | Decision letters mailed |
| Mid-December | Early Auction decisions released | May 1 | Reply date for Admitted Students |
| January 1 | Regular Decision deadline |
What We Look For
We seek promising students who will contribute to the Harvard community during their college years, and to society throughout their lives.
While academic accomplishment is the basic requirement, the Admission Committee considers many other factors—strong personal qualities, special talents or excellences of all kinds, perspectives formed by unusual personal circumstances, and the ability to take advantage of available resources and opportunities.
We outline everything you need to apply to Harvard.
Click https: //college. harvard. edu/admissions/apply to get detailed requirements.
1. You can submit your application through the following approaches except________| A．Common Application. | B．Coalition Application. |
| C．Universal College Application. | D．Application Tips. |
| A．November 1. | B．January 1. | C．March 1. | D．May 1. |
| A．Academic accomplishment. | B．Strong personal qualities. |
| C．Special talents. | D．Unique perspectives. |
Famous scientist as he is, Yuan Longping considers himself a farmer. As a young man, Yuan Longping saw the great need for
5 . For any person who must speak in public, to business or pleasure groups, humor is a helpful and necessary tool for getting your message across. Why does humor work a lot? There are several reasons.
People will enjoy what you have to say if it is presented with humor. But，more importantly，if you are in a situation where important，and perhaps controversial (有争议的) ，ideas must be presented to less than open minds, humor allows those ideas to be presented in a nonthreatening(无威胁的) manner. Abraham Lincoln was famous for his ability to relate humorous stories to make a point. Humor used carefully throughout a presentation will also keep the listeners' interest high. In a word, individuals learning how to use humor in their speeches can strengthen arguments, support interesting presentations and, most of all，entertain their audience in a positive and comfortable way.
While popular culture may well hold many kinds of humor，some of it has no place in presentations that are designed to educate and encourage the audience. If you want to become a professional excellent comedian whose goal is 100% entertainment, then you may be able to use some of the reference materials like The Art of Using Humor in Public Speaking. They can help you develop your skills and sources of humor. To that end, your participation in this study of humor will become necessary. Hopefully, you will come to appreciate the special difficulty of entertaining the audience with good and clean humor.
1. How many reasons does the author give for using humor?| A．Two. | B．Three. |
| C．Four. | D．Five. |
| A．To educate the audience. | B．To encourage the audience. |
| C．To entertain the audience. | D．To exchange with the audience. |
| A．It was good for training one's skills of humor. |
| B．It helped the readers relax after work. |
| C．It gave some tips on how to live a positive life. |
| D．It was a textbook for professional excellent comedians. |
| A．finishing | B．conclusion |
| C．stop | D．result |
6 . Nearly all our food comes from the soil. Some of us eat meat, of course, but animals live on plants. If there were no plants, we would have no animals and no meat. So the soil is very necessary for life. The top of the ground is usually covered with grass or other plants. There may be dead leaves and dead plants on the grass. The waste matter(粪) from animals also falls on it.
All soil needs food. If we do not give it any, the plants will be weak. Farmers found that animals' waste is the best food for the soil, but chemical fertilizers(化肥) are also very useful. The same crop should not be grown in the same place every year; it's better to have a different crop. A change of crop and the use of a good fertilizer will keep the land good.
1. What would happen first without plants?| A．People would have more crops. | B．Animals would die. |
| C．There would be more food. | D．There would be less soil. |
| A．Leaves, plants, grass and waste live on each other. |
| B．There would be no animals without meat. |
| C．There would be no plants without animals. |
| D．People, animals, plants and soil live on each other. |
| A．Chemical fertilizers. | B．Plants and grass. |
| C．Animals' waste. | D．Different crops. |
| A．Because we can keep the soil rich this way. |
| B．Because we don't have enough land. |
| C．Because we want to have a different food. |
| D．Because we do this as a habit. |
7 . I was 9 years old when I found out my father was ill. It was 1944, but I can remember my mother’s words as if it were yesterday, “Kerrel, I don’t want you to take food from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him.”
AIDS wasn’t something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family secret. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could take care of himself. But when I was 12, his condition worsened. My father’s other children lived far away, so it fell to me to look after him.
We couldn’t afford all the necessary medication for him, and because Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn’t even buy food for dinner. I would sit in class feeling completely lost, the teacher’s words muffled(消声) as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage. I did not share my burden(负担) with anyone. I had seen how people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be cruel. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was too weak to feed himself.
I had known that he was going to die, but after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless, I called a woman at the nonprofit National AIDS Support. That day, she didn’t know any about me and my father, but kept me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who was so kind. She saved my life.
I was 15 when my father died. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn’t want to call attention to AIDS. I do.
1. What was Kerrel’s life like when she was little?| A．She often took food from her father. |
| B．She had to be careful when staying with her father. |
| C．She didn’t look after her father until she was 15. |
| D．She worked hard to pay for her father’s medication. |
| A．She couldn’t understand her teacher. |
| B．She had special difficulty in hearing. |
| C．She was too concerned to focus on the lesson. |
| D．She was too tired to hear her teacher’s words. |
| A．She thought it was shameful to have AIDS. |
| B．She was afraid of being looked down upon. |
| C．She found no one willing to listen to her. |
| D．She wanted to obey her mother. |
| A．A secret never spoken. | B．The sufferings of my father. |
| C．The terrible AIDS. | D．Dark days in childhood. |
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9 . One day, 12-year old Sean Redden logged on to the Internet and went to a popular chat room. Just as he was about to sign off, he saw the name of someone he'd never seen there before, Susan. Her brief message was “Would someone help me?”
Sean typed back, “What's wrong?” A moment later he received this message, “I can't breathe. Help me! I can't feel my left side. I can't get out of my chair.”
At first, Sean thought pretending to be paralyzed (瘫痪) was a bad joke. Then he wondered what if she really was sick. “Hey, Mom,” he called. “There's a kid here who's sick or something.” Sharon looked at the computer screen. “It's not just some game, is it?” she asked.
The message was not a joke. “Susan” was actually a 20- year- old student, working late at night at a college library near Helsinki, Finland-almost 7, 000 miles away from Sean's home in Texas. While searching the Internet, she began to feel terrible pain all through her body. The library was silent and empty. The nearest phone was outside in the hallway. She couldn't move that far. Any movement caused the pain to get worse. Then she realized she might get help on the Internet.
“I don't think it's a joke, Mom,” Sean said. And he typed, “Where are you?” After a long pause (暂停), the letters appeared: “Finland.” Sean and Sharon couldn't believe it. Not knowing what else to do, Sharon called the local police.
Sharon explained the situation to Officer Amy Schmidt. Schmidt told Sharon to try to get the sick girl's phone number. Texas police called the international telephone operator and asked to be connected to the proper agency (机构) in Finland. The call was connected to a nearby rescue station. The Texas police gave Susan's address to the Finnish operator. When Sean heard that, he typed, “Help is on the way.”
In a few minutes, Susan heard people running down the hallway outside the door. Suddenly, the door opened. Emergency workers and three policemen ran in. Susan turned once more to the computer, “They are here. Thanks. Bye-bye. ”
Four days later, the police in Texas received message from officers in Finland: “Thanks to her Internet friend, Susan had received medical treatment she badly needed and is doing well.”
1. According to the text, Sean was about to sign off when __________.| A．he noticed an unfamiliar name |
| B．he came across a friend in the chat room |
| C．a boy started a conversation with him |
| D．he met with difficulty in sending messages |
| A．Happy. | B．Doubtful. |
| C．Frightened. | D．Worried. |
| A．A robber hit her on her left side. | B．She was locked in the library. |
| C．She left her phone in the hallway. | D．She was too sick to move. |
| A．Help on the Internet | B．Help on the Way |
| C．Making Friends Online | D．Police Officer's Act of Kindness |
10 . “Don’t tell anyone”. We hear these words when someone tells a secret to us. But it can be hard to keep a secret. We often tend to “spill the beans”, even if we regret it later.
According to Asim Shah, professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, US, keeping a secret may well “become a burden”. This is because people often have an “obsessive and anxious urge to share it with someone”.
An earlier study, led by Anita E. Kelly, a scientist at the University of Notre Dame, US, suggested that keeping a secret could cause stress. People entrusted (受委托的) with secrets can suffer from depression, anxiety, and body aches, reported the Daily Mail.
But with secrets so often getting out, why do people share them at all?Shah explained that people often feel that it will help them keep a person as a friend. Another reason people share secrets is guilt over keeping it from someone close to them. A sense of distrust can develop when people who are close do not share it with each other. “Keeping or sharing secrets often puts people in a position of either gaining or losing the trust of someone,” according to Shah.
He added that talkative people could let secrets slip out (泄露). But this doesn’t mean that it is a good idea only to share secrets with quiet people. A quiet person may be someone who keeps everything inside. To tell such a person a secret may cause them stress, and make them talk about the secret.
Shah said that to judge whether to tell someone a secret, you’d better put yourself in their position. Think about how you would feel to be told that you mustn’t give the information away. Shah also recommended that if you accidentally give up someone’s secret you should come clean about it. Let the person know that their secret isn’t so secret anymore.
1. What does underlined words “spill the beans” mean?| A．Cut up beans. | B．Burst into laughter. |
| C．Let out the secret. | D．Keep the words. |
| A．It can help promote friendships between people. | B．It can result in mental and physical problems. |
| C．It can result in a sense of distrust between friends. | D．It can harm relationships between friends. |
| A．It’s not a good idea to share your secrets with others. |
| B．It’s better to share your secrets with quiet people. |
| C．Quiet people suffer less stress from keeping secrets. |
| D．Talkative people are unlikely to keep secrets. |
| A．Buy the person a gift as an apology. |
| B．Stay away from the person. |
| C．Exchange a new secret with the person. |
| D．Tell the affected person what happened. |
