1 . Natural disasters may claim thousands of lives or destroy millions of homes. What can we learn from disasters?
Sometimes, there are no real answers. Everyone has lost something and someone, and they keep on asking what they have done to deserve this cruel fate. It’s okay to hold on to these questions, but no matter how hard and painful it is, you should keep moving, breathing and living.
Even strangers can teach you kindness. There may be millions of selfish people in the world.
Family is everything. Sometimes we forget to love our family, just because we’re too busy with our own lives.
Every day of your life should be spent loving and living. Don’t be angry at the world for letting you live an unbearable life of heartbreaks and frustrations.
| A．You’ll find your way someday. |
| B．Your money won’t matter in the end. |
| C．Life is too short to live in its imperfections. |
| D．However, it’s not a reason to lose hope in humanity. |
| E．You shouldn’t be a victim forever——be a survivor. |
| F．You have to help yourself first before you can help others. |
| G．At times, we take them for granted because we think they’ll always be there. |
Sometimes, people live with pain from different diseases. Amanda Greene says her pain comes from a disease
Doctor Spiegel says these patients’ disorders are sometimes connected to mental health. VR can help, he explains, by changing
Opioid abuse (镇定剂上瘾)has led to many
3 . With about 1,000-meter-high steep cliffs (陡峭的悬崖) around, there Xiazhuang, Chongqing had only one pathway out of the village, and it took villagers three days to walk to the main town. People there used to risk their lives going out of the mountain village. In the 40 years to 1997, 23 people had died from falling off the cliff while cutting firewood or travelling to the county seat, and 75 people had been injured or disabled while doing the same activities. Then, village head Mao Xianglin held a meeting in 1997 and suggested building a road snaking along the mountains, but almost no villager agreed because they had no money, no machines and no confidence to take on the tough project.
Later that year, around 100 people volunteered to do the work after Mao’s efforts. Workers from ropes and used hammers, drills and even explosives to create the road. Falling rocks and other dangers led to the deaths of six villagers. When they slept in caves (洞穴) at night, they tied a rope around their bodies with the other end tied to the root of an old tree to make sure they did not fall off the cliff.
“Mountains had isolated us from the outside for generations. We had to do something to ensure the next generation could go out of the mountains for a good life,” Mao said. When the 8-kilometer road was completed in 2004, it enabled many villagers to travel out and find work. Incomes increased as a result. Mao will retire in five years, planning to widen the current road and focus on ecotourism. “The spirit of the Xiazhuang people can’t be lost and has to be passed down from generation to generation,” he said.
1. What is Paragraph 1 mainly about?| A．The history of the village. | B．The development of the village. |
| C．The specific deaths in the building. | D．The reason for building the road. |
| A．It was a tough task. | B．It caused 100 deaths. |
| C．It was far from dangers. | D．It made workers sleep soundly. |
| A．Attracted. | B．Separated. |
| C．Contacted. | D．Gathered. |
| A．Frightened. | B．Determined. |
| C．Distant. | D．Curious. |
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(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线,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。
Last Saturday, I went to Caishi Park to join in for a public service activity with my classmates. It’s a famous park in Ma’anshan. Therefore, some of its visitor leave garbage behind.
After get our tools, we were dividing into different teams. We carefully looked for garbage along the road. We spent about two hours filling many bags with garbage in a park. Then we sort the garbage and put it into different bags.
Both of us were a bit tired, but we felt happily to clean up the park. The greatest pleasure is we have made it more beautiful.
注意： 1. 词数80词左右
2. 可适当增加细节，使行文连贯
3. 短文的开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
How to get along well with your parents
As you are growing up, you may want to be free from your parents.
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1. 最喜欢的运动项目；
2. 喜欢的理由。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Jim,
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Yours,
Li Hua
7 . During the National Day holiday, I went to Xi’an, Shaanxi, to visit the world-famous Terracotta Warriors (兵马俑). I was
They are true-to-life, as tall as humans. The most
These soldiers were built for the
The process sounds easy, but it proved to be
| A．ashamed | B．amazed | C．annoyed | D．disappointed |
| A．different | B．similar | C．curious | D．disabled |
| A．confusing | B．tiring | C．frightening | D．appealing |
| A．army | B．school | C．museum | D．stadium |
| A．palace | B．tomb | C．hometown | D．temple |
| A．speech | B．power | C．death | D．travel |
| A．farmers | B．officials | C．soldiers | D．workers |
| A．built | B．designed | C．recovered | D．removed |
| A．After | B．Before | C．Though | D．If |
| A．arranged | B．decided | C．forgot | D．remembered |
| A．damaged | B．analyzed | C．covered | D．bought |
| A．ink | B．leather | C．mud | D．powder |
| A．unfair | B．powerful | C．practical | D．challenging |
| A．socially | B．secretly | C．clearly | D．skilfully |
| A．distinguish | B．advertise | C．finish | D．recognize |
8 . Have you ever wondered why certain pop songs just make you feel so good? Researchers studying the question found that uncertainty and surprise give listeners the most pleasure. The study included 80,000 chords (和弦) in 745 pop songs between 1958 and 1991.
Each song was stripped of its melody (旋律) and lyrics (歌词) so that only chords were left and the results couldn’t be misunderstood by other imaginations of the songs that listeners might have had.
They found two things. Listeners got great pleasure from unexpected chords when they knew what would happen. However, they still found it pleasant to hear familiar chords when they did not know what would follow.
Vincent Cheung, the lead researcher, said, “Pleasant songs are likely those which keep a good balance (平衡) between knowing what is going to happen next and surprising us with something we did not expect. Understanding how music starts our pleasure system in the brain could explain why listening to music might help us feel better when we are feeling blue.”
Cheung told CNN that pleasure in music is connected to expectation. The study before had looked into the effects of surprise on pleasure, but his team’s study also paid attention to the uncertainty of listeners’ expectations.
1. What does the underlined word in Paragraph 2 mean?| A．Taken. | B．Added. |
| C．Played. | D．Recorded. |
| A．Expected music is exciting. | B．Unexpected chords bring pleasure. |
| C．Familiar music is boring. | D．Unfamiliar chords are hard to follow. |
| A．They can explain human nature. | B．They can improve our pleasure system. |
| C．They make some people feel blue. | D．They balance expectation and surprise. |
| A．To introduce a scientific study’s finding. | B．To show music’s importance in our life. |
| C．To compare different studies on music. | D．To experiment music in science. |
9 . Washington is home to lots of trees, fireplaces and wood-burning stoves (炉子) too. But what if you lived there and couldn’t cut wood or couldn’t afford to pay someone to do it? Luckily, Shane McDaniel and his twin sons, Harrison and Henry McDaniel, 21, are happy to give a hand. The three men cut truckloads of wood (数货车木头) and then give it to those in need.
It was too much for the McDaniels to use themselves, and when the weather turned cold that November, Shane started thinking of others. He posted (发帖子) on Facebook: “If you are in need of firewood and cannot afford it, please message me personally! If you know someone who burns wood, and they’re living in a cold house this holiday season, please help me and my boys make sure no one goes cold in our neighbourhood.”
The response (反响) was quick. One man offered to give a wood-burning stove. Others raced over to add wood for the McDaniels. Single mom Katelyn Ticer, 29, and her four-year-old daughter depend on a wood-burning stove as their only way of heat, so it was a great help to receive a truckload of firewood from the McDaniels before the holidays. “To get that much wood brought me to tears,” she told msn.com. “So much pressure and worry is off my shoulders. I couldn’t be more thankful.”
1. Why does the McDaniels cut wood?| A．To sell it for money. | B．To build up their bodies. |
| C．To help those in need. | D．To post on Facebook. |
| A．He wants to spread his help. | B．Wood is expensive in Washington. |
| C．He advertises his wood for sale. | D．Wood is necessary in a holiday season. |
| A．It has much smoke. | B．It brings her pressure. |
| C．It makes her worried. | D．It makes her thankful. |
10 . You know that overnight success usually takes at least 10 years? One man said, “My overnight success was the longest night of my life, I spent many days and nights just getting there.”
Many people who have failed do not know how close they are to success when they give up.
| A．They don’t actually fail; they just give up too easily. |
| B．They made all the efforts without any results. |
| C．Remember, “Rome was not built in a day.” |
| D．Education can’t, for the world is full of educated losers. |
| E．And they keep doing it till they get the success they want. |
| F．Never forget, it is persistence that matters. |
| G．Give it all you’ve got and you can never fail. |
