2 . 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。

Social networking dominates our life in so many ways. I am the one who is addicted to it. Sometimes I set deadlines for myself : I will start doing my homework at 8 pm and finish it in two hours. At 7:50 pm, I’m scrolling through my friends’ silly posts and photos. Before I know it, it’s 9:30 pm and I haven’t moved an inch from the sofa. I download song after song, video after video, but I’m not really paying attention. The stimulation is in chasing after the next song or video rather than truly enjoying it. Since I spend so much time socialising online, I keep delaying things that are important in my real life: homework, tasks, my good friends and so on. Especially, I miss connecting with my family members in a meaningful way. So it is with my sister.

注意：
1. 续写内容应为150词左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

On a family holiday last summer, my sister spent all her time complaining that she needed to charge her phone.   

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Then my father recently declared that every Sunday would be “No Screen Sunday” in our home.

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5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Jan Tchamani, an English teacher in Birmingham, UK,     1     (sudden) developed a serious illness and had to quit her job. At age 50, she found herself out of work and    2     (stick) at home with only her computer to keep her company. After a while, she discovered that surfing the Internet could help her feel less lonely and bored. She could listen to music, watch films, play games, and explore the world. She also joined an online group    3    she could talk about her problems and get support and advice from others. She realized that one of the greatest    4     (benefit) of the Internet was its ability    5     (remove) the distance that usually exists between people.

6 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式

The New York Times published an article recently that shows great regret for the "death of conversation". It suggests that     1     technology such as cell phones, e-mails, and Internet posting makes us feel more     2     (connect) than ever, they’re also driving us away from people around us.

Users get final connectivity     3     price of face-to-face conversation. Lan Guo, 19, a freshman English major from Changsha University, said that she would like to hear people’s tone of voice and see their faces in a conversation. She mentions that     4    (lose) ourselves in mobile technology reduces our chance of starting conversations with strangers and     5     (meet) people．

The concept of “I share, therefore I am” among this generation. Young people are so busy creating or polishing their online persona (网络人格) that they forget     6     to live a real life. For example, they may care more about blogging about attending a party rather than enjoying being there.

However, experts remind us that it’s     7    (fair) to blame mobile technology. Chen Chen, a sociology expert at China Youth and Children Research Center,     8     (point) out that it is still owners of mobile technology that are avoiding personal contact. We take advantage of these devices     9    (hide) ourselves from others. Texting messages or calling may be an excuse to avoid contact with others, such as having eye contact. “When     10     (strengthen) conversation, we can understand each other. Simply throwing away the mobile phones is not a solution.”she said.

7 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Do Smartphones Make Us Smarter?

Should teachers allow cellphones in a classroom? A recent study on the way smartphones disturb learning might help explain the issue. Researchers published findings showing how students were affected by their phones in the classroom. They explored the differences in student performance in four situations: open phone use allowed, phones allowed in the classroom but could not be used, no phones in the classroom and a no-instruction control group. After watching a 20-minuted video, students took a short quiz. The result was that the students in a room without any cellphones performed significantly better on the test. Scientists believe the way we attach ourselves to our phones could be the problem.

Smartphones have become to strongly established in society that many people are lost without them. We are now in an age when many people can’t imagine life without a phone. There is even a name for the anxiety caused by not having one-monophobia, which is the powerful feeling people get when they don’t have signal, their battery is about to die, or they are separated from their phones. Their fear of missing out on important information or connections can have a controlling effect on their lives and can divide their attention from other important things like learning.

So does information technology help or block the way we think? In the past, people relied heavily on specific knowledge and knew how in their circle of friends would be most likely to know things in different subjects. Now, our friend with all the information is the Internet. Indications are that people don’t remember information as well if they know they can use a computer of phone to recall it quickly. So it may be more difficult to move information from the Internet into our long-term memory.

But the impact of being exposed to so much information isn’t all bad. Reports show that frequent Internet use can strengthen fast-paced problem solving and can speed up the ability to spot patterns in a lot of data.

8 . Directions: Complete the following sentences by using the proper form of the words or expressions given in the frame. Each one can only be used once.

Why your Password May Not Be As Safe As It Seems?   Does “qaz2ws” strike you as a nice safe password? What about “adgjmptw”? An analysis has found them to be among the passwords that are most     1     used, which of course means they are not secure at all.

When ten million passwords were leaked on to the internet，they appeared to     2    that attempts by internet security experts to make us improve our password strength had been successful, even if, in the specific case of the leaked passwords, they are also completely pointless.

While many of the passwords were still single words, such as “password”，there was also a clear attempt by many to make them harder to    3    . The problem was that people seemed to do so in the same way.

“Users are becoming slightly more     4    what makes a password strong,” explained WP Engine, an internet company that performed the analysis. “For instance, adding a number or two at the end of a text phrase. That makes it better, right?”

But     5    no. They found that almost half a million passwords did this and in 20 percent of those all people did was put the number “1” at the end.

Perhaps this is why some companies are now trying to move gradually beyond passwords. Yahoo! is giving users the option to     6     their mobile phone with an account, having a single use passwords texted to it each time they want to log on.

Although the serviced is voluntary, Dylan Casey an executive at Yahoo!，said that it was “the first step to    7    passwords”. He said it was a(n)    8    that it was increasingly hard for people to remember all the passwords they had. “I don’t think we, as an industry, have done a good enough job of putting ourselves in the shoes of the people using our products,” he said.

It would certainly be a more sensible strategy than same people’s improving upon “password” by using “password” or，“tran5p053d numb3r5 for 133tr3r5”.

“We are, for the most part，predictably    9    when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups” said WP Engine. “We love taking a(n)     10    , and so do password crackers.

9 . 请阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇 150 词左右的文章。

A new study’s findings warn that smart phones are seriously messing with your quality of life.

The study looked at the responses of 256 smart phone users. Researchers found that 13 percent of participants were addicted to their smart phones, spending 3.6 hours per day on the devices. Social networking sites were the No. 1 time wasters with 87 percent of users, while instant messaging apps at 52 percent and news apps at 51 percent.

Almost 25 percent of the people admitted that their smart phones caused “communication issues” in their real lives, including less conversation with family and friends. What’s worse, the majority of users said “their   smart phone use   caused distraction(精神不集中)   from   many aspects of   their lives, including employment, hobbies and studies.”

“People need to know the potential addictive properties( 性质) of mobile phones,” a researcher said. “There should be a warning before people purchase them or before they download an app. If you’re downloading a game, there should be a warning saying that you could end up playing this for hours and you have other responsibilities that could be ignored.”

【写作内容】
1. 用约 30 个单词写出上文概要；
2. 用约 120 个单词简要分析人们玩手机上瘾的原因，并谈谈应该如何戒掉手机瘾（至少两点）。
【写作要求】
1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3. 不必写标题。
【评分标准】 内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
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10 . If you want to get something done, you might want to put your mobile phone back in your pocket. Researchers have found that the mere presence of a phone is distracting (分心) — even if it is not your own. And the devices (设备) are likely to distract you, even if they are not ringing or “pinging” with text messages. People asked to carry out electronic tests of their attention spans were found to perform worse when a mobile phone was present than other people performing in the presence of a paper notepad.

Scientists from Hokkaido University in Japan said that their findings show that it is harder to concentrate when one of the electronic devices is present. The effect was most marked on people who are not regular users of phones. In tests on 40 undergraduates. Associate Professor Junichiro Kawahara and a colleague divided the subjects into two groups — one asked to carry out tests in the presence of an Apple iPhone next to a computer monitor, and the other in the presence of a notebook.

The test involved asking the participant to search for a particular character among a mess of other characters on the screen. Researchers measured the time it took to find the target. The results of the experiment found that those with the mobile phone took longer to find the character, indicating that participants were automatically distracted by the presence of the phone. The researchers suggest that people are drawn to the presence of a mobile phone, although there are individual differences in how one attempts to ignore it. In conclusion. Professor Kawahara said. “The mere presence of a mobile phone was a distraction among infrequent internet users.”

Another finding is that listening to one half of a mobile phone conversation also distracts people, and other studies have found that placing a mobile phone in view has a negative impact on the quality of face-to-face communications. Holding a mobile phone makes you less likely to get a fair hearing from others.

1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?

A．A mobile phone won’t distract people unless it’s ringing.

B．People find it hard to concentrate if their phones are present.

C．Text messages distract people even if phones are power off.

D．A paper notepad can help people record much information.

2. Who will be affected most according to the findings?

A．People irregularly using phones.

B．People regularly using phones.

C．People usually using notepads.

D．People always using computers.

3. In a face-to-face communication, what is the effect of putting a mobile phone in sight?

A．It makes listeners feel much awkward.

B．It causes other people to lose respect for you.

C．It reduces people’s attention to what they are listening to.

D．It makes the air of the conversation more pleasant.

4. What can we learn from the text?

A．People perform worse with a mobile phone at hand.

B．Mobile phones do a lot of damage to people’s health.

C．People working with mobile phones will do very well.

D．Phones should be banned in all schools and universities.