1 . I often wonder how people can get so angry,so deep in their own belief that they become deaf to anything that may differ from their beliefs.I’ve often been told that I’m too open-minded,listening to others'viewpoints so openly that they become my own.Maybe that comes from my practice of actively listening to others.It means that I do really hear them instead of responding only out of politeness.Maybe it's because I was brought up by parents who didn’t necessarily speak to me about respecting others but modeled it for me through their own actions.They treated everyone equally,from what I remember,never looking down upon others because they were different from us.

As I raise my daughters,I try my best to show them love and understanding in all situations. When they misbehave, talk back, or break the rules,I'll lovingly analyze the reasons behind their behaviour.I'll be tolerant(宽容的)towards their differing opinions and become open and curious about their ideas.And I'll be mindful of how I treat and speak to others,showing equal respect to everyone.

My expectation is that if I show my daughters unconditional love and acceptance,they’ll learn to show the same love to others.I hope that they will not see difference as a threat,but as a way to add richness to their very existence.It's beautiful to live in a world filled with so many differences.

So,as I write this,welcoming my second daughter to my family,I'm fully aware that change begins with how I act and what decisions I make.Every generation carries its own set of problems.All we have control over is how we respond to those problems.This is what I will teach my girls:how to control their own emotional world;how to hold onto love as well as their beliefs and values;how to remember that hate and anger are never the answer and that tolerance and love will always take them further in life.

1. The author seems different from other people in terms of_______________.

A．her deep understanding of belief	B．her reaction to different opinions
C．her negative views on social politeness	D．her confusing attitude towards her parents

2. What does the author intend to do as for raising her kids?

A．Encourage them to have different opinions.

B．Teach them some useful conversation skills.

C．Punish them heavily for their bad behaviors.

D．Set them an example of love and acceptance.

3. What do Paragraph 3 imply?

A．Love me,love my dog.	B．Nothing seek,nothing find.
C．Don't put the cart before the horse.	D．Music with different tones sounds beautiful.

4. What can be the best title for this text?

A．The art of social communication	B．The importance of love and tolerance
C．The ways to effectively listen to others	D．The positive attitude towards hate and anger

2 . In early December I came to the Arctic town of Iqaluit in search of parenting wisdom. All the moms _______one golden rule: Don't shout or yell at small children. The culture views _______ or even speaking to children in an angry voice as _______. “When they're little, it doesn't help to raise your _______. It will just make your own heart rate _______,” a mom said. “And you are _________them to yell,” said clinical psychologist Laura Markham. “On the contrary, parents who control their own anger are_________their children to learn to do the same.”

“But how do you_________ kids to behave well? How do you keep your 3-year-old from running into the road?” I asked. “We use _______,” said Jaw, another mom. There are ________ stories passed down by word of mouth from one generation of Inuit to the next.

For example, they teach kids to stay away from the ________ by telling a story about the water monster. “If the child walks__________the water, the monster will__________him down to the ocean and adopt him out to another family,” Jaw says. “Then we don‘t need to ________ at a child, because the child is ________ getting the message.”

At first, such stories seemed to me a bit too ________for little children. But my opinion________ after I learned more about human ________with storytelling. Psychologist Deena Weisberg said, “Don't ________ the playfulness of storytelling. We learn best through things that are__________to us. And stories are much more interesting than bare statements.”

1.

A．approved

B．demanded

C．mentioned

D．predicted

2.

A．whispering

B．blaming

C．punishing

D．scolding

3.

A．improper

B．unnatural

C．unashamed

D．impossible

4.

A．anger

B．voice

C．question

D．sound

5.

A．go up

B．blow up

C．think up

D．turn up

6.

A．educating

B．forbidding

C．challenging

D．teaching

7.

A．helping

B．letting

C．having

D．making

8.

A．bring out

B．bring up

C．bring about

D．bring down

9.

A．singing

B．drawing

C．storytelling

D．reading

10.

A．historical

B．oral

C．fairy

D．literary

11.

A．ocean

B．stream

C．lake

D．river

12.

A．opposite to

B．close to

C．away from

D．out of

13.

A．push

B．lift

C．drag

D．pull

14.

A．wave

B．whisper

C．whistle

D．yell

15.

A．again

B．even

C．already

D．also

16.

A．necessary

B．awful

C．attractive

D．heartbroken

17.

A．spread

B．returned

C．changed

D．formed

18.

A．business

B．agreement

C．separation

D．relationship

19.

A．accept

B．favour

C．disobey

D．discount

20.

A．amusing

B．boring

C．satisfying

D．annoying

3 . Now at some level, all moms and dads know they shouldn't yell at kids. But if you don't _______or talk angrily, how do you discipline（管教）？

For thousands of years, the Inuit have _______ an ancient tool： storytelling. Designed to improve kids’ behaviors and sometimes _______ save their lives, oral stories are passed down from one _______ to the next. For example, how do you teach kids to _______ the ocean? Instead of _______, “Don't go near the water!” Inuit parents take a unique _______ and tell kids a special story about what's inside the water. _______, those stories seemed to me too scary for little children. And my initial reaction was to _______ them. But my opinion changed after I watched my own daughter's response to ________ tales——and after I learned more about humanity’s complex relationship with storytelling.

Oral storytelling is what's known as a human ________. For tens of thousands of years, it has been a key way that parents teach children about values and how to ________. Modern hunter-gatherer groups use ________ to teach sharing, respect for others and conflict avoidance. With the Agta, a hunter-gatherer population of the Philippines’ good storytelling skills are ________ more than hunting skills or medicinal knowledge.

Today many parents outsource their oral storytelling to screens, which also ________ . We learn best through things that are ________ to us. And stories, by their ________ , can have lots of things in them that are much more interesting in a way that bare ________ don't. Stories with a dash of danger ________ kids like magnets （磁石）. And they turn a tension-ridden activity like disciplining into a ________ interaction. So don't discount the playfulness of storytelling.

1.

A．answer

B．defend

C．scold

D．stare

2.

A．run into

B．relied on

C．dealt with

D．applied for

3.

A．still

B．only

C．never

D．even

4.

A．generation

B．season

C．destination

D．point

5.

A．stay away from

B．look forward to

C．face up to

D．put up with

6.

A．recommending

B．begging

C．yelling

D．questioning

7.

A．contribution

B．introduction

C．opportunity

D．approach

8.

A．At least

B．At first

C．In addition

D．For example

9.

A．dismiss

B．subscribe

C．remember

D．prove

10.

A．familiar

B．personal

C．similar

D．humorous

11.

A．universal

B．right

C．form

D．feeling

12.

A．differ

B．calculate

C．change

D．behave

13.

A．toys

B．stories

C．videos

D．experiments

14.

A．affected

B．blamed

C．distributed

D．prized

15.

A．declines

B．works

C．exists

D．ends

16.

A．important

B．available

C．interesting

D．obvious

17.

A．purpose

B．size

C．nature

D．side

18.

A．prediction

B．imagination

C．performances

D．statements

19.

A．consist of

B．pull in

C．pay off

D．turn down

20.

A．playful

B．careful

C．doubtful

D．painful

4 . If you want to teach your children how to say sorry, you must be good at saying it yourself, especially to your own children. But how you say it can be quite tricky.

If you say to your children “I'm sorry I got angry with you, but . . . ” what follows that “but” can make the apology ineffective: “I had a bad day” or “your noise was giving me a headache” leaves the person who has been injured feeling that he should be apologizing for his bad behavior in expecting an apology.

Another method by which people appear to apologize without actually doing so is to say “I'm sorry you're upset” ,this suggests that you are somehow at fault for allowing yourself to get upset by what the other person has done.

Then there is the general, all covering apology, which avoids the necessity of identifying a specific act that was particularly hurtful or insulting, and which the person who is apologizing should promise never to do again. Saying “I'm useless as a parent” does not commit a person to any specific improvement.

These apologies are used by people who believe saying sorry shows weakness, Parents who wish to teach their children to apologize should see it as a sign of strength, and therefore not resort to these apologies.

But even when presented with examples of genuine contrition, children still need help to become aware of the complexities of saying sorry. A three-year-old might need help in understanding that other children feel pain just as he does, and that hitting a playmate over the head with a heavy toy requires an apology. A six-year-old might need reminding that spoiling other children's expectations can require an apology. A 12-year-old might need to be shown that raiding the biscuit tin without asking permission is acceptable, but that borrowing a parent’s clothes without permission is not.

1. If a mother adds "but" to an apology, ________.

A．she doesn't feel that she should have apologized.

B．she des not realize that the child has been hurt

C．the child may find the apology easier to accept

D．the child may feel that he owes her an apology

2. Which word or phrase could replace “resort to”(part. 5) in the passage?

A．object to	B．recommend
C．make use of	D．offer

3. We learn from the last paragraph that in teaching children to say sorry ________.

A．the complexities involved should be ignored

B．their ages should be taken into account

C．parents need to set them a good example

D．parents should be patient and tolerant

4. It can be inferred from the passage that apologizing properly is ________.

A．a social issue calling for immediate attention

B．not necessary among family members

C．a sign of social progress

D．not as simple as it seems

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Devote yourself to the work you do, not the prize you might get. Hao Jingfang, a Tsinghua University alumna, is pursuing her passion for writing and education. In 2016, she     1     (win) the prestigious Hugo Award with her novella, Folding Beijing,     2     made her the first female writer in China to bring home this prize. Later on, the author turned to education. She set up Tongxing Academy for public welfare education and WePlanets to foster     3     (child) creativity after school.

“The major task for society is to help people get better education, to elevate their skill set in line with future technological advancements,     4     to broaden their horizons,” Hao said.

Since     5     (found) her company, Hao has been carrying     6     voluntary teaching programs in rural areas. “We really want these kids to have such quality education resources     7     kids from the cities do,” she said. “We hope that the children from rural China, if one day they manage to live in the cities, can do more than car maintenance, for example. They will have the skills to take on other jobs.”

Different from the typical Chinese parents so ambitious for their children, Hao suggests giving kids more space for     8     (try) and error. “I do believe the best mentality for parents is to stand behind your children,” Hao said. “Let the child cope with the reality and decide for themselves. If they struggle with obstacles, you can offer them some guidance or encouragement.”

Being an economic researcher,     9     writer and entrepreneur herself, she encourages all women to discover their passions. “We live in a big, big world with boundless possibilities, various trades and different vocations. Don’t be too afraid to try something new. When you find the one thing that you want to commit to, you will become     10     (fear) to follow your dream.”

6 . GOING TO UNIVERSITY is supposed to be a mind-broadening experience. But is it actually true? Jessika Golle of the University of Tubingen, thought she would try to find out. Her result, however, is not quite as expected. She found those who have been to university do seem to leave with broader minds than those who have spent their immediate post--school years in vocational(职业的)training for work. However, it was not the case that university broadened minds. Rather, work seemed to narrow them.

Germany had three tracks in its schools: a low one for pupils who would most probably leave school early and enter vocational training; a high one for those almost certain to enter university; and an intermediate one, from which there was a choice between the academic and vocational routes.

The team used two standardised tests to assess their volunteers. One was of personality qualities. The other was of attitudes. Of the original group, 382 were on the intermediate track. University attracted 212 of them. The remaining 170 chose vocational training and a job.

Years later, Dr Golle found that the personalities of those who had gone to university had changed not a statistically detectable jot. The same goes for those who had undergone vocational training, except in one crucial respect. They had become more earnest. That sounds good, certainly compared with the common public image of undergraduates as a bunch of spoiled layabouts (懒汉). But changes in attitude were more worrying. In the university group, again, none were detectable. But those who had chosen the vocational route showed marked drops in interest in tasks that are investigative and enterprising in nature. And that might restrict their choice of careers. Some jobs, such as scientific research, are, indeed off limits to the degreeless. But many, particularly in Germany, with its tradition of vocational training, are not. The researchers mention, for example, computer programmers, finance-sector workers, estate agents and entrepreneurs as careers requiring these qualities.

If Dr Golle is correct, and changes in attitude brought about by the very training Germany prides itself on are narrowing people's choices, that is indeed a matter of concern.

1. According to the research, ''university broadened minds'' is not quite right because__________.

A．university narrowed one's mind

B．work narrowed one's mind

C．university offered no better education than work

D．work was more important than university

2. Germans are offered several choices while studying in school except that__________.

A．they stick to the end and go to university directly

B．they leave school early and receive certain professional training

C．they choose to drop out and enter workforce

D．they make it to the midway and make a choice

3. What concerned the researchers, based on the recorded changes?

A．The fact that the university group's changes in attitude were not obvious.

B．The fact that the university group's changes in personality were not obvious.

C．Those who had chosen the vocational route showed less change in personality

D．Those who had chosen the vocational route showed less interest in enterprising tasks.

4. _______are accessible for those who had chosen the vocational route.

A．Computer programmers and scientific research

B．Finance-sector workers and estate agents

C．Entrepreneurs and scientific research

D．Scientific research and estate agents

7 . Devote yourself to the work you do, not the prize you might get. Hao Jingfang, a Tsinghua University graduate, is pursuing her passion for writing and education.

In 2016, she won the admired Hugo Award with her novella, Folding Beijing, which made her the first female writer in China to bring home this prize. Later on, the author turned to education. She set up Tongxing Academy for public welfare education and WePlanets to promote children’s creativity after school.

In this interview with Easy Talk, Hao discusses her life experience-not only as a writer and educator, but also a parent.

“The major task for society is to help people get better education, to elevate their skill set in line with future technological advancements, and to broaden their horizons,” Hao said.

Since founding her company, Hao has been carrying out voluntary teaching programs in rural areas. “We really want these kids to have better education resources like kids from the cities,” she said. “We hope that the children from rural China, if one day they manage to live in the cities, can do more than car maintenance, for example. They will have the skills to take on other jobs.”

Different from the typical Chinese parents so ambitious for their children, Hao suggests giving kids more space for trial and error. “I do believe the best mentality for parents is to stand behind your children,” Hao said. “Let the child cope with the reality and decide for themselves. If they struggle with obstacles, you can offer them some guidance or encouragement.”

“I’ve had a wide variety of interests since childhood. I’ve got used to doing different things,” says the 35-year-old.

Being an economic researcher, a writer and businessperson herself, she encourages all women to discover their passions. “We live in a big, big world with boundless possibilities, various trades and different vocations. Don’t be too afraid to try something new. When you find the one thing that you want to commit to, you will become fearless to follow your dream.”

1. What does the underlined word “elevate” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．research	B．improve
C．recognize	D．evaluate

2. As far as parenting is concerned, Hao suggests Chinese parents should________.

A．let their children go freely.

B．be ambitious for their children.

C．give their children a hand only if necessary.

D．remove their children’s obstacles ahead of time.

3. Which of the following best describes the interviewee?

A．Helpful and committed.	B．Creative and stubborn.
C．Narrow-minded and responsible.	D．Imaginative and demanding.

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．How to discover a person’s passions.

B．The effective ways to achieve your dream.

C．Great achievements made by Hao Jingfang.

D．Hao Jingfang’s views on writing, education and parenting.

8 . For a generation now, school reform has meant what students must be taught and carried out by standardized（标准化的）tests.

Here’s a thought experiment. Suppose that next year almost every student passed the tests. What would the reaction be from people? Would they shake their heads in respect and say, “Damn, those teachers must be good!”?

Of course not. Such remarkable success would be used as evidence that the tests were too easy and it needs to raise standards. “High standards” really means “standards that all students will never be able to meet”. My little thought experiment uncovers a truth that we have been taught to respond with doubt whenever all members of any group are successful. In America, success doesn’t count unless it is got by only a few.

Consider widespread complaints about “grade inflation（膨胀）” in higher education. Many people don’t even bother to stress that grades have risen over time. They simply point to how many students get A’s right now. The goal, in other words, isn’t to do well but to defeat other people who are also trying to do well. Grades in testing should be used to announce who’s beating whom. A school’s final task, apparently, is not to help everyone learn but to prepare the game so that there will always be losers.

This makes no sense in any situation. Perhaps, for example, we can defend rating states or nations based on the quality of their air, health care or schools, but ranking them is foolish. School testing ranking doesn’t lead to improvements in performance but tends to hold us back from doing our best. It makes productive teamwork less likely and leads all concerned to focus not on meaningful improvements but on trying to beat everyone else.

Most of all, it encourages the false belief that excellence is a zero-sum game. It would be more reasonable to rescue the spirit of the concept: Everyone may not succeed, but at least in theory all of us could.

1. What did the writer’s thought experiment prove?

A．Good teachers represent higher test scores.

B．Excellence is regarded as a rare thing.

C．American tests are usually too easy.

D．Students don’t meet the test standards.

2. What does the writer think American schools seem to do?

A．Promote teachers to teach better.	B．Remove the belief of beating others.
C．Help all students do well at school.	D．Ensure the existence of failures.

3. What is the writer’s attitude towards schools testing ranking?

A．Disapproving.	B．Optimistic.
C．Sympathetic.	D．Unconcerned.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．How Can Students Succeed?	B．Why Can’t Everyone Get A’s?
C．What Standards Do Schools Set?	D．Who Get Best Grades at School?

9 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有 10 处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词注意:
1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2 只允许修改 10 处,多者(从第11处起)不计分

I was a teaching assistant in a secondary school, that I gave support to students with low abilities. I had two lessons a week with 11 students. The school asked me to teach their basic Spanish. They seldom did any language at school due to their "problems" but often felt down. Therefore, I decided work on that.

In each lesson I allow them several minutes to write the positive note to a classmate to be stuck in their books, such as “You’re the best”,“ Well done in your lesson”. Gradual, they learned to congratulate on each other. They started to show much interest than ever not only in Spanish but also in other subject.

10 . What will higher education look like in 2050? That was the question addressed Tuesday night by Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University.

“We’re at the end of the fourth wave of change in higher education,” Crow began, arguing that research universities followed the initial establishment of higher education, public colleges, and land-grant schools in the timeline of America.

In less than a half-century, he said, global market competition will be at its fastest rates of change ever, with several multi-trillion-dollar economies worldwide. According to a recent projection, the nation’s population could reach 435 million, with a large percentage of those residents economically disadvantaged. In addition, climate change will be “meaningfully uncontrollable” in many parts of the world.

The everyday trends seen today, such as declining performance of students at all levels, particularly in math and science, and declining wages and employment among the less educated, will only continue, Crow maintained, and are, to say the least, not contributing to fulfilling the dream of climbing the social ladder mobility, quality of life, sustainable environment, and longer life spans that most Americans share.

“How is it that we can have these great research universities and have negative-trending outcomes?” Crow said in a talk “I hold the universities accountable. … We are part of the problem.”

Among the “things that we do that make the things that we teach less learnable,” Crow said, are the strict separation of disciplines, academic rigidity, and conservatism, the desire of universities to imitate schools at the top of the social ranks, and the lack of the computer system ability that would allow a large number of students to be educated for a small amount of money.

Since 2002, when Crow started being in charge at Arizona State — which he calls the “new American university” — he has led more than three dozen initiatives that aim to make the school “inclusive, scalable, fast, adaptive, challenge-focused, and willing to take risks.”

Among those initiatives were a restructuring of the engineering and life sciences schools to create more linkages between disciplines; the launch of the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Sustainability; the start of a Teachers College to address K-12 performance and increase the status of the Education Department at the university; and broadened access, increasing the freshman class size by 42 percent and the enrollment of students living below the poverty line by 500 percent.

Universities must start, Crow noted, “by becoming self-reflective architects, figuring out what we have and what we actually need instead of what legend tells us we have to be.” Research universities today have “run their course,” he added. “Now is the time for variety.”

During a discussion afterward, Crow clarified and expanded on some of his points. He discussed, for example, the school’s distance-learning program. “Nearly 40 percent of undergraduates are taking at least one course online,” he said, which helps the school to keep costs down while advancing interactive learning technologies.

He said that Arizona State is working to increase the transfer and completion rates of community-college students, of whom only about 15 percent, historically, complete their later degrees. “We’ve built a system that will allow them to track into universities,” particularly where “culturally complex barriers” beyond finances limit even the most gifted students.

1. The fourth wave of change in America’s higher education refers to _______.

A．public colleges	B．land-grant schools
C．initial higher education	D．research universities

2. Which is NOT part of the American dream most people share?

A．People enjoy a quality life.	B．People live longer and longer.
C．The freedom to move around.	D．An environment that is sustainable.

3. Which is an initiative adopted by Crow at Arizona State University?

A．Restructuring the teachers College.

B．Launching the School of Life Sciences.

C．Ignoring the linkages between disciplines.

D．Enrolling more students from poor families.

4. With the distance-learning program, Arizona State University is able to ______.

A．enroll 40% of its students online

B．provide an even greater number of courses

C．attract the most gifted students all over the world

D．keep costs down without a loss of quality