1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is wrong with the man ?

A．He gets allergic.

B．He has a stomachache.

C．He cut himself accidentally.

2. Who is the man probably ?

A．A volleyball fan.

B．A volleyball player.

C．A volleyball coach.

2 . What are the speakers mainly talking about ?

A．Using the Internet.

B．Writing a book.

C．Shooting a movie.

3 . 假设你是新华中学的李华，你校将在下周三举办“科技创新大赛”(Science & Technology Innovation Contest)系列活动。请给你班留学生 Jim 写封邮件，邀请他参加其中一个活动。邮件的内容包括：
1. 介绍你推荐的一个活动；
2. 说明你推荐这个活动的理由。
注意：1. 词数 80 左右；
2. 开头和结尾已经给出；
3. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Jim,
How’s everything going?
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Yours,

LiHua

4 . As the leaves start to change color and the autumn air turns fresh, sometimes nothing is more appealing than the attraction of a good book. Here are our four top picks for the best books.

The Most Fun We Ever Had

By Claire Lombardo

Doubleday

David and Marilyn have been married forever. Four kids and decades later, they're still as in love as the day they met. Lombardo paints an extraordinary picture of a family in what could well be one of the best novels published this year.

The Shadow King

By Maaza Mengiste

W. W. Norton & Company

A historical novel that takes place in the 1930s Ethiopia, The Shadow King focuses on the female soldiers who take up arms in World War II . In beautiful prose （叙述）, Mengiste shines a light on those whose lives are not often noticed.

Someone We Know

By Shari Lapena

Pamela Dorman Books

A quiet suburban town is shaken by a series of break-ins and a body that turns up in the trunk of a car in this latest psychological thriller by the author of The Couple Next Door. How are the crimes related? And what does the invader know?

The Only Plane in the Sky ： An Oral History of 9 /11

By Garrett M. Graff

Avid Reader Press

Journalist Graff puts together an oral history of 9/11 from the perspective of nearly everyone involved. Every single line is breathtaking and heartbreaking, weaving together the story of previously-unimaginable and tragic events that changed history.

1. Which of the following published the book about the army?

A．Doubleday.	B．W. W. Norton & Company.
C．Pamela Dorman Books.	D．Avid Reader Press.

2. Which author is good at writing suspense stories?

A．Claire Lombardo.	B．Maaza Mengiste.
C．Shari Lapena.	D．Garrett M. Graff.

3. Which of the following is TRUE about The Only Plane in the Sky ： An Oral History of 9/11?

A．It's about some true stories in 9/11.

B．It's about some female soldiers in World War Ⅱ.

C．It's about a journalist's experience in 9/11.

D．It's about a single tragic event in 9/11.

5 . If you are planning a New Year’s Eve party, make sure you have more planned than just the champagne toast at midnight and the finger foods. Your guests will have a much better time if you set up some games for them to play and enjoy.

Guess the Resolution（新年计划）—Give each member of the party five pieces of paper and a pencil. Ask them to write down five resolutions without writing down their names. Place all of the resolutions in a hat and mix them up. Pull pieces of paper out of the hat one at a time and see if your guests can guess which person came up with the resolution. There will be some fun surprises as strange or entertaining resolutions are read out loud.

New Year’s Rock Band—This game requires a collection of noisemakers, pots, pans and wooden spoons. These items will be your guests’ instruments as they play a song on the popular Guess That Tune game. Split the group into two teams. Have one team select four members to be their rock band for the turn and whisper the name of a song to the band members. The band must then play the song using their instruments while the rest of their teammates try to guess. The team gets a point if they get the song correct. Repeat the same step with the other team. This game will yield ridiculous performances of popular and entertaining songs.

Around the World-Most—New Year’s Eve parties don’t start until late evening. An around the world theme allows the party to start earlier in the day, with a celebration each time a new time zone reaches midnight. A world map displayed in the party room allows guests to track the current celebration. Adding a pin in each time zone as it reaches midnight adds an interactive element to the party. A menu with food from around the world emphasizes the theme of the party. Decorations may include globes and items from different parts of the world.

1. Which is necessary in “Guess the Resolution”?

A．Writing down resolutions with one’s name.

B．Reading out the resolutions one by one.

C．Putting some of the resolutions in the hat.

D．Writing down five resolutions on a piece of paper.

2. Who decides the song to play in “New Year’s Rock Band”?

A．The host.	B．The band.
C．The teammates of the band.	D．The other team.

3. How is “Around the World” different from the other games?

A．The party takes place in the evening.

B．There are guests from around the world.

C．There are various New Year’s Eves.

D．The celebrations last for several days.

6 . The flu season arrives so predictably, and affects so many of us, that it’s hard to believe that scientists have had very little idea why cold weather helps germs to spread.

Worldwide, up to five million people catch the illness each flu season, and around a quarter of a million die from it. Part of its power comes from the fact that the virus changes so quickly that the body is hardly prepared. “The antibodies we’ve built up no longer recognize the virus – so we lose our immunity,” says Jane Metz at the University of Bristol. It also makes it harder to develop effective vaccines, and even if one comes out, governments often fail to persuade enough people to take it up.

The hope is that by understanding better why flu spreads in winter, but naturally fades in summer, doctors could find simple measures to stop its spread.

Previous theories had centred on our behaviour. We spend more time indoors in the winter, meaning that we’re in closer contact with other people who may be carrying germs.

Another popular idea concerned our physiology(生理机制): the cold weather weakens your body’s defenses against infection. In winter, without much sunlight, we may run low on Vitamin D, which helps power the body’s immune system. Moreover, when we breathe in cold air, the blood vessels in our nose shrink, which affects the normal function of white blood cells, allowing viruses to slip past our defenses unnoticed.

While such factors both play some role, analyses suggested another ignored cause may have been lying invisible in the air that we breathe. Thanks to the laws of thermodynamics(空气热力学), cold air can carry less water vapor before it reaches the “dew point” and falls as rain. So while the weather outside may seem wetter, the air itself is drier as it loses the moisture. And researches in the past few years has shown that these dry conditions seem to offer the perfect environment for the flu virus to flourish.

In wetter air, the epidemic struggles to build strength, while in drier conditions it spreads like wildfire. And comparing 30 years’ climate records with health records, Jeffrey Shaman at Columbia University found that flu epidemics almost always followed a drop in air humidity.

1. What can we infer from the second paragraph ?

A．We lose immunity due to the absence of our antibodies.

B．The antibodies fail to function due to variation of virus.

C．Government should come up with better ways to persuade people.

D．One in four of the infected die from the influenza each flu season.

2. What is the purpose of understanding better why flu spreads in winter?

A．To help develop effective vaccine.

B．To seek ways to treat people infected with flu.

C．To figure out ways to cut off its transmission.

D．To explore how to defend our immune system.

3. In what weather condition a flu epidemic is more likely to occur ?

A．Destroying bodies’ immune system.

B．Powering our bodies’ immune system.

C．Killing numerous viruses that we take in.

D．Stopping us acquiring enough Vitamin D.

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Ways to prevent infection of flu	B．Flu-A disease not so hard to prevent
C．A predictable flu season	D．Why germs spread in winter

7 . Tired from a full day’s work, Rosa Parks got on a Montgomery bus on December 1, 1955 and forever became one of the inspirational people who _______ the world. She sat down among several white passengers, along with three _______ African-Americans, in the middle of the bus.

At a later stop, after Parks had _______   her seat, a white passenger _______ the full bus. By the then-current Montgomery laws, the black passengers were _______ obligated to leave their seats and give them over to _______white passengers.

It seemed a _______ situation as the white passenger _______ his way down the aisle(过道). The bus driver, James F. Blake, left the driver’s _______ and moved directly up to the four black passengers. His ________ was to get the black passengers to move to the ________ of the bus-basically, it was standard operating procedure.

While the other three black passengers ________ Blake and moved on, Rosa Parks refused to do this. Blake eventually contacted the ________ police and they arrested her.

This ________ is considered one of the moments in the history of the Civil Rights movement in the United States. It ________ a year-long bus boycott in the city of Montgomery, ________ by Martin Luther King, Jr. That movement changed civil rights in the United States ________.

Parks lived to the age of 92, dying in 2005. She was ________ a posthumous statue in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. She was also granted the ________ of “lying in honor” at the Capitol Rotunda, only the third ________ citizen to be so honored.

1.

A．respected

B．changed

C．accepted

D．broke

2.

A．other

B．rest

C．ugly

D．poor

3.

A．got down

B．occupied with

C．came along

D．settled into

4.

A．drove

B．avoided

C．found

D．boarded

5.

A．legally

B．finally

C．originally

D．classically

6.

A．crying

B．standing

C．quarreling

D．drinking

7.

A．routine

B．proper

C．ordinary

D．reasonable

8.

A．took

B．fought

C．made

D．wound

9.

A．door

B．window

C．wheel

D．seat

10.

A．action

B．behavior

C．intention

D．hope

11.

A．back

B．outside

C．center

D．front

12.

A．scolded

B．obeyed

C．beat

D．pleased

13.

A．clever

B．national

C．local

D．strict

14.

A．affair

B．accident

C．conflict

D．incident

15.

A．sparked

B．sent

C．promoted

D．heated

16.

A．moved

B．found

C．held

D．led

17.

A．forever

B．deeply

C．either

D．just

18.

A．offered

B．rewarded

C．presented

D．passed

19.

A．fame

B．honor

C．name

D．title

20.

A．well-known

B．private

C．special

D．amazing

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the purpose of the call?

A．To accept a position.

B．To advertise a job opening.

C．To check on a job application.

2. For what day is the man’s appointment scheduled?

A．Tuesday.

B．Thursday.

C．Friday.

3. What does the woman ask the man to do?

A．Call her later.

B．Wait at the front desk.

C．Meet with Victoria Smith.

9 . 假设你是晨光中学的学生李津。你在某网站的论坛上读到一位名为 Chris 的外国学生 发的帖子，得知他有意来中国的大学学习。请根据以下提示给 Chris 留言：
（1）鼓励他来中国留学；
（2）说明来华留学的好处（如：加深对中国的了解，对个人发展的益处等）；
（3）表示愿意进一步提供帮助。 注意：
（1）词数不少于 100；
（2）可适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯；
（3）开头已给出，不计入总词数。

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10 . How to Meet New People

It is easy to find a place where people gather. But once you’re in a room full of people, then what? The trick is finding a way to approach someone and get them talking to you.

Prepare to meet new people before you arrive.     1    . Don’t think in terms of yes or no questions. You should consider questions that will allow the person to contribute more than a one-word answer to the conversation.

★ Arrive at your event or place. Don’t panic when you walk in the door. Take your time and look over the room. If this is a classroom, take a seat and look around the room.     2    , take time to enjoy the art while looking at the people. Don’ t rush into talking to someone. You have time, so just get a feel for the group.

★ Approach someone.     3    .   But remember, if the person is at the event alone, they may also be shy and try to break out and meet people. You need to make them feel comfortable by chatting with them.

★     4    . Keep them talking and talk yourself—remember, conversation goes in two directions. You may have a couple of awkward moments, but if you have a few items planned to talk about, you’ll find that they’ll start adding their own questions and information to the conversation.

★ Don’t forget to ask them for a friendship follow-up.     5    , try asking your new friend if they’d like to go to another event with you. If it is a repeat event, such as a class, try asking them if they’d like to meet for coffee before the next class to study the material.

A．If it is a one-time event

B．If this is an art show

C．If you have picked out someone to approach

D．Mentally pull out your prepared questions

E．You may not meet your next best friend on your first try

F．You might find it easiest to approach someone who is also alone

G．Sit down and write out a list of potential questions you can ask someone