1 . When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.
Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note — “Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery” — and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically (魔术般) appear.
All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn’t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.
There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service.
Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch (门廊) . Every so often my son’s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.
1. Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer to __________.| A．show his magical power | B．pay for the delivery |
| C．satisfy his curiosity | D．please his mother |
| A．He wanted to have tea there. | B．He was a respectable person. |
| C．He was treated as a family member. | D．He was fully trusted by the family. |
| A．Nobody wants to be a milkman now. | B．It has been driven out of the market. |
| C．Its service is getting poor. | D．It is not allowed by law. |
| A．He missed the good old days. | B．He wanted to tell interesting stories. |
| C．He needed it for his milk bottles. | D．He planted flowers in it. |
1. 几十年前, 在一个寒冷、多雾的(misty)早晨, 书店的生意很冷清, 女销售员(saleswoman)无聊地坐在店里等顾客。
2. 而现在, 来书店看书的人非常多。
3. 一群(a bunch of)孩子坐在地上看着平板电脑(tablets), 没有人作声。
4. 在另一个房间, 有一个朗诵会(recital)正在进行着。
5. 时代变了, 人们读书的方式也发生了很大的变化。
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3 . It’s 2035. You have a job, a family and you’re about 40 years old! Welcome to your future life.
Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror. “Turn red,” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red. Tiny preprogrammed electronics (电子器件) are rearranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe you’re 40. You look much younger. With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old. You’re not even middleaged!
As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl, you hear, “To lose weight, you shouldn’t eat that,” from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code (电子源码) on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?” A list of possible foods appears on the counter as the kitchen checks its food supplies.
“Ready for your trip to space?” you ask your son and daughter. In 2005 only specially trained astronauts went into space—and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacations. Your best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each, you add, “The doctor said you need these for space travel.” Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots (防疫针) are a thing of the past. Ordinary foods contain specific vaccines. With the berries in their mouths, the kids head for the front door.
It’s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office. Autopilot,” you command. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway. You sit back and unroll your enewspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video film rather than read it.
1. What changes the color of your shirt?| A．The mirror. | B．The shirt itself. |
| C．The counter. | D．The medicine. |
| A．By pouring the breakfast into a bowl. |
| B．By listening to the doctor’s advice. |
| C．By testing the food supplies in the kitchen. |
| D．By checking the nutrition details of the food. |
| A．breakfast | B．lunch |
| C．vaccines | D．nutrition |
| A．In order of time. | B．In order of frequency. |
| C．In order of preference. | D．In order of importance. |
From: Diana
To: George
Subject: Plans for the future
Dear George,
It’s great to hear from you. Thanks for the birthday card!
You asked if I have been thinking a lot about the future now that I’m 17. The answer is yes! Things change so quickly, don’t they? I mean, in just a year’s time, I
What are you hoping to do in the future? Tell me about your plans.
Kind regards,
Diana
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1.老年保健用品行业;
2.网络信息咨询和服务行业;
3.邮政和电信。
注意：1.词数80左右;
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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1. 遇见外星人并被带到外星球；
2. 参观了他们的智能化房子；
3. 房子是如何为人服务的；
4. 外星人邀请你留下来，但你还是选择回到了地球与家人和朋友团聚。
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1. 新型城市产生的原因;
2. 新型城市的运作模式。
注意：1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯;
3. 开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。
Good morning, everyone. I’m glad to share my view on “the new city in the future”.
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Thank you!
