1 . Test anxiety exists and is a common problem among students.     1     . When you’re stressed and anxious during an exam, your mind has a tendency to go completely blank. Here are some tips on how to reduce or overcome test anxiety.

Get to know the material

First, you need to know the topic of the exam.     2     . Knowing as much as possible about the material can get you ready for the test. As to any exam, learn your material thoroughly. Memorize what needs to be memorized and understand what needs to be understood.

Slow down and calm yourself

    3     . So when the test starts, rather than immediately jumping to answer the questions, relax first to get your mind to work. Wait for the class to settle down before you start answering. Saying a few words of encouragement and conscious breathing can help you calm yourself down.

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If you have an hour for an exam, try to consume every second of that hour in answering the best possible choice. There are no rewards for finishing first!

Silence unwanted pressures

Believe it or not, chances are that other students can be a source of major anxiety during the test. Seeing them cramming (恶补), telling you what you need to remember and what might show up in the exam will affect your preparation. Get past through the negative and unwanted thoughts and remind yourself of how well you know about the topic. Avoid speaking with any fellow classmates who are not prepared and who express negativity.     5     .

A．Dare to be the first

B．Budget and consume your time

C．A sound sleep may help you ease the test anxiety

D．They might destroy all that you have prepared for

E．Anyone taking an exam experiences some level of anxiety

F．Rushing through a test can make you read the questions and choices incorrectly

G．Also, find out how many questions there would be on the test and the required time for it

2 . “Given that signs of Alzheimer’s disease (老年痴呆症) start to accumulate in the brain several decades before the disease begins, understanding the connection between sleep and cognition (认知) earlier in life is critical for understanding the role of sleep problems as a risk factor for the disease,” said study author Yue Leng, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco.

The study involved 526 people with an average age of 40. They were followed for 11 years. Researchers looked at participants’ sleep duration and quality. Participants wore a wrist activity monitor for three continuous days on two occasions approximately one year apart to calculate their averages. Participants slept for an average of six hours. Participants also reported bedtime and wake-up time in a sleep diary and completed a sleep quality survey with scores ranging from 0 to 21. A total of 239 people reported poor sleep with a score greater than five.

Researchers also looked at sleep fragmentation (碎片化), a measure of restlessness during the sleep period expressed as a percentage. The higher the value, the more sleep is interrupted. Participants were divided into three groups based on their sleep fragmentation score. Of the 175 people with the most interrupted sleep, 44 had poor cognitive performance 10 years later, compared to 10 of the 176 people with the least interrupted sleep.

After adjusting for age, sex, race, and education, people who had the most interrupted sleep had more than twice the possibility of having poor cognitive performance when compared to those with the least interrupted sleep. There was no difference in cognitive performance at midlife for those in the middle group compared to the group with the least interrupted sleep.

However, due to the small sample size, the researchers were unable to fully investigate potential race or sex differences. “More research is needed to assess the link between sleep disturbances and cognition at different life stages and to identify if critical life periods exist when sleep is more strongly associated with cognition,” Leng said.

1. What do we know about Yue Leng’s study?

A．Data collection was an easy process.	B．It aimed to find a cure for Alzheimer’s.
C．The results were far from satisfactory.	D．Higher scores mean poorer sleep quality.

2. What can we learn about sleep fragmentation in the study?

A．It did require outside intervention.	B．It included a series of memory tests.
C．It measured short interruptions of sleep.	D．It determined those participants’ groups.

3. What do the findings indicate according to the text?

A．The quality of sleep may affect cognitive health.

B．Keeping a sleep diary can improve one’s sleep quality.

C．People sleeping well won’t suffer from Alzheimer’s disease.

D．People with interrupted sleep won’t have memory problems.

4. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．The major limitation of the study.

B．An explanation of the research method.

C．A possible reason for the study findings.

D．The use of careful investigations in real life.

3 . 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。

Snowed In

Waiting and praying were a daily routine for Barbara Schmitt, but today the prayers were more intense. Her three-year-old granddaughter, Michelle, had been showing danger signs that made an immediate liver transplant critical, but the telephone was as silent as the snowy scene outside.

Then at nine in the morning, the phone rang. A hospital in Omaha had located the right liver donor, they were sure it was a match for Michelle, and they needed her there within 12 hours. Barbara couldn’t tell what to do first — rejoice or despair, as they were snowbound (被雪困住的), 600 miles away. “We’re snowed in,” Barbara told the medical coordinator on the line, “and the airport is 17 miles away and there’s no way we’re going to get there.” “Don’t give up,” the woman told Barbara. “You have 12 hours to reach Omaha!”

Fortunately, the phone lines were still working, so she started calling Sharon Stevens, who runs Hair Angels, a fund for children with special needs. Sharon had already lined up a Lear jet (医疗飞机) and two pilots to fly the Schmitts to Omaha when transplant time came. How to get from the Schmitts’ house to the jet was the big question.

Sharon called for help through the local radio station, wanting to invite listeners to call in with ideas and suggestions. Teresa Amshoff heard the story and suggested that the church parking lot next to her house, only a mile from the Schmitts, would make a perfect helicopter landing pad. As precious minutes ticked away, the Amshoffs rushed from door to door, begging for help to clear the lot. Neighbors came without hesitation.

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Within half an hour, 50 volunteers were working in winds to clear the area in snow.

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Hours later, they reached the hospital in Omaha.

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4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词) 或括号内单词的正确形式。

I remember that every year in lunar December in my hometown, Xinyang, each family begins to prepare bunches of bacon and sausage hanging from yard to yard     1     (embrace) the upcoming New Year. Walking in such a street view and sniffing the smell of pickled bacon(腊肉), I always have a sense of    2     (happy).

Xinyang, located on the boundary between the north and the south, is rich in rice, wheat and fertile land due to its unique     3     (geography) position and climate. Therefore, it cultivates the characteristics of Xinyang people who have a good appetite     4     delicacies. According to relevant records, the history of Xinyang’s pickled bacon dates back to the Ming Dynasty,     5     the locals learned to keep its special taste by preserving it in a special bean. People in Xinyang love their life so much that even during     6     (tough) times, they still inherited the soul of taste and made delicious pickled bacon. Actually, Xinyang’s pickled bacon is made in     7     seemingly simple way by drying the meat in the shade but it brings out the flavor of the food     8     (it) and stays with our memory for long.

You’ll never become fully conscious of how much you value it until you     9     (tear) apart from it. Such is Xinyang’s pickled bacon, one of my unforgettable memories of my hometown despite time     10    (tick) by.

5 . When a severe heat wave covered California in July 2006, it killed an estimated 650 people. But it may be tough to recall because heat waves don’t typically have names. They are already the deadliest weather-related danger, yet they remain invisible killers that few people take seriously. What if the most life-threatening heat waves did have names?

This summer, as many experience high temperatures fueled by greenhouse gas pollution and El Niño, there has been new openness to the idea of naming heat waves. People in Southern Europe have dubbed the July heat wave Cerberus. The results of a survey of more than 2,000 people found that people who knew the heat wave was named Cerberus were also more likely to take actions to stay safe, including drinking more water, spending more time indoors and warning others about the risk.

Though more research is needed, this suggests that naming heat waves, combined with stronger messaging, can not only help change people’s perception of the risk, but prompt them to take protective action. It would be more effective to broadcast that Heat Wave Zoe, a dangerous Category 3 event, will start tomorrow and here’s what you can do to protect yourself, your neighbors and co-workers. Names, after all, are easier to remember than numbers or weather forecasts.

But the World Meteorological (气象学的) Organization opposes naming heat waves on the grounds that it would confuse and distract the public. And the National Weather Service has no plans to rank or name heat waves either, saying that heat and its health impacts vary so dramatically across different regions and seasons that even coming up with a standard definition of a heat wave is impossible.

There’s nothing to lose by trying out a pilot program to name the most dangerous heat waves. It’s pretty clear the current approach to these disasters is falling far short of what’s necessary to protect lives. We need other ways to call attention to it and warn the public of the danger. It’s hard to make progress fighting an enemy with no name.

1. Why does the author mention the severe heat wave that covered California in July 2006?

A．To clarify the severity of heat waves.	B．To remind people of the tough heat wave.
C．To introduce the topic of naming heat waves.	D．To show people’s ignorance of the heat wave.

2. What can we learn from paragraph 2 and 3?

A．Due to its effectiveness, naming waves is a must.

B．There exist benefits of categorizing and naming heat waves.

C．Naming heat waves can change people’s perception of the risk.

D．Naming heat waves can urge people to take prompt action to protect themselves.

3. Why does the National Weather Service have no plans to name heat waves?

A．It will confuse and distract the public.

B．It is inappropriate for naming heat waves.

C．It is difficult to distinguish and predict heat waves.

D．It is unlikely to put forward a standard definition for heat waves.

4. What is the author’s attitude to naming heat waves?

A．Approving.

B．Indifferent.

C．Doubtful.

D．Opposed.

6 . Many significant international projects have considered how schooling might change to better match the changes that have taken place in the 21st century.     1     One is a shift in the meaning of knowledge, and the other is the need to build education systems based around what we now know about learning.

The term “knowledge age” or “knowledge economy” refers to a reorganization away from an Industrial Age economy, where exploitation (开采) of natural resources, primary production and mass production were the standard models for economic development.     2     This is achieved through the rapid creation of new knowledge and has become the basis for economic development. It is argued that education for the knowledge age must focus on the development of learners’ competences to deal with new situations and environments.

    3     Nor does it deny the need for obvious goals for students’ knowledge development. Rather, the future-focused education literature suggests we need to adopt a much more complex view of knowledge, one that incorporates knowing, doing and being. Alongside this we need to rethink our ideas about how our learning systems are organized, resourced and supported. Research clearly shows that people do not learn well as passive recipients (接受者) of pre-packaged, bite-sized pieces of knowledge.     4    

Although some of these principles are understood by many teachers, our education systems and practices are often set up in ways that do not support these principles to operate in practice. Teachers and school leaders are attempting paradigm (范式) shifts.     5    

A．There needs to be wider public support for them.

B．There are two important ideas that support this work.

C．This does not mean that knowledge no longer matters.

D．Good learning requires active engagement in the “whole game”.

E．We are required to prepare young people for the knowledge age.

F．This is possible only when active learning approaches are applied.

G．In the knowledge age, the ability to generate value is put in the first place.

7 . Salvador Quijada is now an eighth-grade math teacher at Philip’s Academy Charter School. When he _________his own journey into maths, he gives credits to one high school math teacher who pushed him to take on AP calculus (微积分). Quijada said his teacher’s belief that he could succeed allowed him to challenge himself in ways he might not have otherwise _________.

Now, Quijada brings that _________ into his lessons. Last year, seeing many students who did well in maths, he thought they might need an _________ push in terms of their maths. So he wanted to bring an accelerated version of the eighth grade curriculum (课程) for them to _________ more easily. He brought up the _________ to Philip’s headmaster, Yasmeen Sampson, who encouraged him to move forward with it! Thanks to the right curriculum he found, the students were _________ enjoying the class. They were cooperating, _________ and working hard during the class. They’re now making great _________.

When asked what he has done as a teacher that he’s especially __________ of, “I create a classroom environment that __________ respect and learning,” he replied. “I always want my students to feel comfortable and __________, even when making mistakes. In my first year as a teacher, I had a student who always __________ me and made it difficult to teach. I had to really learn how to work with him. Once I was able to build a __________ with him, it became much __________ to teach him. Now, seven years later, I still keep in touch with him.”

1.

A．comes up with

B．looks forward to

C．makes up for

D．thinks back on

2.

A．considered

B．refused

C．watched

D．thrown

3.

A．energy

B．luck

C．service

D．positivity

4.

A．equal

B．additional

C．obvious

D．initial

5.

A．succeed

B．exist

C．agree

D．work

6.

A．method

B．report

C．idea

D．truth

7.

A．unusually

B．seemingly

C．impatiently

D．skillfully

8.

A．fighting

B．singing

C．cheating

D．discussing

9.

A．pace

B．sense

C．progress

D．room

10.

A．aware

B．proud

C．careful

D．sure

11.

A．invents

B．commands

C．encourages

D．prefers

12.

A．safe

B．suitable

C．awkward

D．tense

13.

A．followed

B．challenged

C．blamed

D．admired

14.

A．humor

B．wonder

C．theory

D．bond

15.

A．funnier

B．harder

C．easier

D．duller

8 . 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。

It was time for the ice cream event that my small youth group had waited for many months. The group consisted of five boys; one of them was Scott.

Scott always had a positive attitude. He looked on the bright side of things and never criticized anyone. But Scott was different from the rest of us because he was disabled, suffering from a disease which caused hands shaking constantly. Therefore, he was unable to participate in activities in most cases. No one ever made fun of him to his face, but at times, people would laugh or stare in his presence. But Scott never worried; he just kept his head up high and ignored them.

Finally, the night of the ice cream event descended. My friends and I rushed to the church basement and waited with scoops (冰淇淋勺) in hand for the guests to arrive. One by one, people filed in, all hoping to get a creamy and tasty scoop of ice cream. But what they ended up getting was a hard and frozen mass. We waited for a while for the ice cream to melt, and eventually it did.

Once the ice cream melted, we had another problem. It had turned into three pools of coconut, chocolate, and strawberry. But we persisted in serving it. We had our chance to serve, except for Scott. So, being as kind as possible, I gave Scott a chance to scoop and serve. As soon as Scott gripped the scoop, our ice cream troubles grew beyond control. Milky ice cream was flung in every direction and made a mess on people, but there was no sign for him to come to a stop on account of his terrible control of trembling hands. At that moment, a stir of unrest and dissatisfaction rippled through the crowd.

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2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Abruptly, a woman stormed forward and grabbed the scoop.   

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Tears blurred his eyes as Scott got hold of the scoop again.   

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9 . 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。

One of my favourite things about spring is the arrival of different species of birds. My grandfather was a bird lover, and I picked up the birdwatching hobby at a young age, thanks to his influence. My husband John and I found it a relaxing way to enjoy nature; we like birdwatching when we go camping or hiking. Plus, I have a great love of nature photography, so when we sit out in the backyard of our home, I always have my digital camera with me. John is an artist, and he often paints the birds I photograph.

Usually when the yellow warblers (莺) come back from the south in springtime, they pass us by; we don’t typically see them hanging around our home. But not on this particular sunny day in spring. As soon as I finished my workday, I put on a light jacket and went out to the backyard to relax in my favourite way: by watching the birds.

While taking some pictures of cardinals (红衣凤头鸟) and chickadees (北美山雀) at one of our feeders, I looked up and noticed this yellow warbler in our maple tree. The tree had recently begun to bud, and the bird’s yellow feathers looked striking against the yellow blooms, so I took this photo. Our backyard has a variety of trees and between my husband and me, we’ve documented almost 40 different species of birds. I’ve photographed most of them, but some can be a bit camera shy so I also keep a written list of what we see. Our more common visitors are cardinals, chickadees, hummingbirds and various sparrows.

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1.续写词数应为150左右;
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
One day, I was watching the yellow warbler jumping among trees when a snake crawled towards it.
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At this time, I saw many small stones in the backyard.
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10 . Minimalism isn’t about being boring or getting rid of most of your things and living in empty rooms. It’s more about identifying what adds value to your life and brings you joy and parting with things that don’t.     1     .

Whether you want to start the process of living a more minimalist lifestyle or have already started but are finding yourself stuck, here are some tips to help you.

Be Clear On Why You Want To Live A Minimalist Lifestyle

Getting rid of useless things in your home, workspace and life, in general, can be challenging.     2     . Yet, chances are, if you’ve barely used these items, you won’t need them in the future.

Being clear as to why you’re doing it can be critical as it’ll help remind you of your goal, fuel your motivation and keep you going even when you’re feeling overwhelmed.     3     . No matter the reason, knowing why you’re doing it is the best way to ensure you successfully move towards a more minimalist lifestyle.

Clear Out Responsibly

Opening a garbage bag and clearing out everything you don’t want to keep is quick and easy. Yet, someone else could use your items or recycle them. One of the best things you can do is donate your clothes to someone you know or a charity.     4     . Lastly, as mentioned before, certain items can be recycled. You should only throw away things you can’t sell, donate or recycle.

Get In The Right Mindset

    5     . It’s about finding joy and gratitude. It’s about being satisfied when you need to throw out something old and promoting self-care and loving yourself. The minimalist seeks simplicity, usefulness and clarity with less focus on material possessions and more focus on value in life. Clear the useless things so you can focus on your priorities and goals.

A．You can also organize a big garage sale

B．The best way to tidy up is to take it one step at a time

C．Mindset is key to a “less is more” attitude and lifestyle

D．That’s because it might be hard to part with some of your things

E．Living a minimalist lifestyle can allow you to create a life of more

F．This way, you can get rid of the unnecessary things that burden you

G．Perhaps you want to create more space in your home or limit your carbon footprint