2 . The sea could be the food bowl of the future. In Jervis Bay, south of Sydney, seaweed, which is rich in fibre and omega 3, is grown and harvested.

Pia Winberg is a marine scientist who runs Australia's first food-grade fanned seaweed company. Her crop is grown alongside mussels (贻贝)and is used as an additive in pasta (意大利面)and other products.

Seaweed is also raised in large tanks, where it absorbs carbon dioxide waste from a wheat processing factory. The business is small, but could help to reduce the ecological footprint of traditional farming.

“We used ten percent of seaweed instead of wheat in breads and pastas, we've eliminated a million hectares of land, we've eliminated all of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with that, and we've also reduced the pressures on very precious fresh water.” said Pia Winberg.

Spiny sea urchins (多刺海胆虫)are another blue economy resource. They can destroy marine habitats, but a recent competition for environmental start-ups in Australia, saw them not as a pest but a delicacy (美味).

Martina Doblin, CEO of Sydney Institute of Marine Science, said, “By 2050 we will have some ten billion people on the planet, and about half the food they eat will come from the ocean. So, we really do need to pay attention to the way that we manage the blue economy-generating wealth from the ocean but in a sustainable (可持续的)way.”

Farming at sea has its challenges. Infrastructure (基础设施)has to be sound, as do supply chains and biosecurity. But get these things right, and the ocean might just be the next great economic frontier.

1. What is the function of the first paragraph?

A．To lead to the main topic.

B．To describe a new kind of seaweed.

C．Tell how important the food safety is.

D．To explain the meaning of blue economy.

2. What can we learn from what Martina Doblin said in paragraph 6?

A．Ocean exploration has made little progress so far.

B．More and more people will die of hunger in the future.

C．More work is needed for a better use of the natural resources.

D．Sea farming will be a good way to solve the coming world food problem.

3. Which word can be used to describe the author's attitude towards sea fanning?

A．Skeptical.

B．Objective.

C．Tolerant.

D．Negative.

4. Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A．How to Protect the Marine Animals

B．Measures to Develop Blue Economy

C．Farming the Sea for the Future of Food

D．Traditional Farming is Gradually Disappearing

3 . Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
假设你是浦润中学高三学生李青，你校校刊上的“展望未来”栏目正在征文，请以“50年后的学校”为题写一篇文章投稿。你的稿件必须包括：
描述50年后的学校里的一个场景；谈谈现在的你置身其中的感受。
(注：文中不得出现真实的姓名及学校名称。)
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4 . Each of Apple’s products such as the iPhone and the iPad sounds cool and has become a fashion. Apple has cleverly taken advantage of the power of the letter “i”, and many other brands are following suit. The BBC iPlayer, which allows Web users to watch TV programs on the Internet, used the title in 2008. A lovely bear — popular in the US and the UK — that plays music and video is called iTeddy. A simplified version of The Independent was launched in 2010 under the name i.

In general, single-letter prefixes(前缀) have been popular since the 1990s, when terms such as e-mail and e-commerce first came into use.

Most “i” products are aimed at young people and considering the major readers of The Independent’s sister paper I, it’s no surprise that they’ve selected this fashionable name.

But it’s hard to see what’s so special about the letter “i”. Why not use “a” , “b”, or “c” instead? According to Tony Thorne, former Director of the Language Centre at King’s College London, “i” works because its meaning has become unclear. “When Apple uses ‘I’, no one knows whether it means the Internet, information, individual or interactive,” Thorne told BBC Magazines. “Even when Apple created the iPad, it seems it didn’t have one clear definition,” he said.

“However, thanks to Apple, the term is now connected with portability (轻便),” added Thorne.

Clearly the letter “i” also agrees with the idea that the Western world is centered on the individual. Each person believes they have their own needs, and they love personalized products for this reason.

Along with “Google” and “blog”, readers of BBC Magazines voted “i” as one of the top 20 words that have come to define the last decade.

But as history shows, people grow tired of fashion. From the 1900s to the 1990s, products with “2000” in their names became fashionable as the year was connected with all things advanced and modern.

However, as we entered the new century, the trend unavoidably disappeared.

1. Why do people use iPlayer?

A．To listen to music.

B．To make a call.

C．To watch TV programs online.

D．To read newspapers.

2. What is The Independent’s sister paper i aimed at?

A．Engineers.

B．Young readers.

C．Fashionable women.

D．Old readers.

3. Nowadays, the term “i” often makes people think of the products which are ________.

A．easy to carry

B．environmentally friendly

C．advanced

D．personalized

4. What is implied in the last paragraph?

A．“i” products are often of high quality.

B．Actually nobody likes products with “2000”.

C．Fashion is closely connected with time.

D．The popularity of “i” products may not last long.

5 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What has made working at home possible?

A．Living far from workplaces.

B．Communication industry.

C．More job opportunities.

2. What is the advantage of working at home according to the woman?

A．Saving more time.

B．Having a lot of freedom.

C．Taking care of the family easily.

3. What might happen in the future in the woman’s opinion?

A．British company will move overseas

B．All companies will employ homeworkers.

C．People will work at home for a foreign company.

6 . If you could travel in time, where would you go? Perhaps you would watch a performance of a Shakespeare's play in Elizabethan England? What about hanging out with Laozi in the Spring and Autumn Period? Or maybe you'd voyage far ahead of the present day to see what the future holds.

The possibility of time travel is indeed appealing. Stories exploring the subject have been around for hundreds of years. Perhaps the best known example is science fiction novel The Time Machine, written by H. G. Wells and published in 1895 . It was adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now universally referred to a vehicle transporting people into the far future.

But could time travel actually be possible? Some scientists say yes, in theory. They propose using cracks in time and space called "wormholes", which could be used as shortcuts to other periods. Einstein's theory of relativity allows time travel in extreme circumstances. And Stephen Hawking says you could travel into the future with a really fast spaceship-going at nearly the speed of light. Though building such a spaceship wouldn’t of course be simple .

Even if you could travel into the past, there is something called the "grandfather paradox". It asks what would happen if a time traveler were to go back in time and have his own grandfather killed for some reason, and therefore prevent himself from being born. If the time traveler wasn't born, how would he travel back in time?

And would you really like to visit the future? In H. G. Wells' book, the main character travels into distant time where he arrives at a beach and is attacked by giant crabs. He then voyages 30 million years into the future where the only living thing is a black object with tentacles (触角).

If that's what's in store, maybe we are better just living in the present day after all.

1. The novel The Time Machine mentioned in Paragraph 2 aims to show________.

A．the long history of time travel

B．the contribution of H.G. Wells

C．the story's different features

D．people's interest in time travel

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．The Time Machine is one of the bestselling science fiction novels.

B．There are films, comic books and dramas adapted from the novel The Time Machine.

C．Works of Literature about time travel first appeared one hundred years ago.

D．It was H.G. Wells who invented the term "time machine".

3. Einstein's and Hawking's theories________.

A．suggest the possibility of time travel

B．have been proved wrong by some time travelers

C．have similarities because both are based on experiments

D．have pushed the invention of the first spaceship

4. In Paragraph 4, "grandfather paradox" probably refers to the idea that________.

A．the reunion of the traveler and his grandfather brings happiness

B．the grandfather's death makes the traveler's birth impossible

C．the traveler goes back in time to seek for his grandfather

D．the traveler is prevented from meeting his grandfather

5. According to the passage what is probably the author's attitude towards time travel？

A．Unclear.

B．Supportive.

C．Doubtful.

D．Unconcerned.

7 . It was once common to regard Britain as a society with class distinction. Each class had unique characteristics.

In recent years, many writers have begun to speak the ‘decline of class’ and ‘classless society’ in Britain. And in modern day consumer society everyone is considered to be middle class. But pronouncing the death of class is too early. A recent wide-ranging society of public opinion found 90 percent of people still placing themselves in particular class; 73 percent agreed that class was still a vital part of British society; and 52 percent thought there were still sharp class differences. Thus, class may not be culturally and politically obvious, yet it remains an important part of British society. Britain seems to have a love of stratification.

One unchanging aspect of a British person’s class position is accent. The words a person speaks tell her or his class. A study of British accents during 1970s found that a voice sounding like a BBC newsreader was viewed as the most attractive voice. Most people said this accent sounded ‘educated’ and ‘soft’. The accents placed at the bottom in this study, on the other hand, were regional (地区的) city accents. These accents were seen as ‘common’ and ‘ugly’. However, a similar study of British accents in the US turned these results upside down and placed some regional accents as the most attractive and BBC English as the least. This suggests that British attitudes towards accent have deep roots and are based on class prejudice.

In recent years, however, young upper middle-class people in London, have begun to adopt some regional accents, in order to hide their class origins. This is an indication of class becoming unnoticed. However, the 1995 pop song ‘Common People’ puts forward the view that though a middle-class person may ‘want to live like common people’ they can never appreciate the reality of a working-class life.

1. A recent study of public opinion shows that in modern Britain ________.

A．it is time to end class distinction.

B．most people belong to middle class.

C．it is easy to recognize a person’s class.

D．people regard themselves socially different.

2. The word stratification in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ________.

A．variety

B．division

C．authority

D．qualification

3. The study in the US showed that BBC English was regarded as ________

A．original

B．educated

C．prejudiced

D．unattractive.

4. What is the main idea of the passage?

A．The middle class is expanding.

B．A person’s accent reflects his class.

C．Class is a key part of British society.

D．Each class has unique characteristics.